Playing With Fire: Extinction Scene 1
Playing With Fire: Extinction and Survival at La Brea Tar Pits
In California, 13,000 years ago, huge Ice Age mammals that had roamed the landscape for many millennia, suddenly ceased to exist. The cause? Humans, catastrophic fires, and an ecosystem made vulnerable by climate change.
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Naturalist Nature in L.A.
Nature Gardens Turn 10
A look back—and forward–at all the nature thriving in NHM’s Nature Gardens.
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Year of the Rabbit
Celebrate the 2023 Lunar New Year with highlights from the collection
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Depth Perceptions
NHM’s marine collections illuminate the shape of life in deep water.
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Tar Pits MGM Parody
Saber-toothed Cat 101
La Brea Tar Pits presents everything you need to know about saber-toothed cats.
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Burro-Ing Into the Past
How introduced donkeys and the indigenous pumas that love (to hunt) them are helping to resurrect extinct food webs in Death Valley
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L.A. Bats Under the Overpass
Counting the bats roosting along the L.A. River
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Ailurarctos reconstruction Mauricio Anton
Research and Collections
Eating bamboo? It's all in the wrist.
An ancient fossil reveals the earliest panda on an exclusively bamboo diet and the evolutionary history of panda's false thumbs
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Suiting Up for Smilodon
An exhilaratingly lifelike recreation of a saber-toothed cat will thrill — and teach — audiences in Ice Age Encounters.
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A Closer Look at Becoming Jane: Her Scientific Legacy
Join the next conversation live and in-person on March 25
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