Hidden black and white feathers are the secret behind songbirds' dazzling colors
Colorful songbirds like tanagers use a painterly technique to make their colors pop
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How Bird Feathers Work
A brief look at the structure of feathers—and what they mean to birds
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A Monster “Goblin” at the Feet of Dinosaurs
Meet the newly discovered giant, armored lizard named for the Hobbit’s goblin prince
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A First Step to Bird Names as Simple as ABC
First-of-its-kind Avian Lexicon Atlas maps how bird species get their names
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How Ancient Crocodile-Like Predators Ruled the Islands of the Caribbean
NHM's scientist discovers that sebicids, ancient land-dwelling crocodile-like beasts, reigned over the West Indies as apex predators after vanishing from South America
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Dire Wolves: Sorry, They’re Totally Still Extinct
NHM and Tar Pits experts weigh in on why dire wolves have not, in fact, been successfully cloned, and the surprising perils of de-extinction
The Lights Below
A new study shines a light on the mechanics of bioluminescence in the rare fish Vinciguerria mabahiss and we explore some of the other fish lighting up the deep
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Bird banding, Wildfire Smoke, and the Nature Gardens
Researchers band birds and collect feathers in the Nature Gardens to study the impacts of wildfire smoke on birds.
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Solving a Juniper Seed Mystery at La Brea Tar Pits
How identifying a mysterious fossil seed reveals Ice Age climate change
Collections Staff Help Ammonites Come Out of Their Shells
Uncovering how digitization and collections management made a groundbreaking extinction study come to life
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