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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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An opaque white and transparent mineral with many spiky outgrowths.
Research and Collections
The Secret Power of Zeolite
Our Curator of Mineral Sciences, Aaron Celestian, talks about why this mineral blows his mind!
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A Ponding We Will Go!
¡Vámonos al charco!
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Red Rock Canyon State Park landscape
Research That Rocks
Our breathtaking backyard state park
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Before Dinosaurs Got Big
Meet Earth’s first giant—a humongous new species of ichthyosaur—only at NHM!
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Fragmentary Fossils Help Tell the Whole Evolutionary Story
Paleontological “twigs” from our fossil past can help us reconstruct branches on the tree of life
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Chimpanzees: Redefining What It Means to Be Human
Dr. Jane Goodall’s scientific insights revealed how similar we are to chimpanzees.
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Earth's First Giant
The two-meter skull of a humongous new ichthyosaur species, Earth’s first known giant creature, reveals how both the extinct marine reptiles and modern whales became giants.
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Sauropod Head
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Tooth Fast, Tooth Curious?
A new study uncovers a novel approach to a plant-based diet, unique to long-necked dinosaurs
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three-dimensional scan of the pathological pelvis and femur
Research and Collections
These Hips Don’t Lie: 3D Imaging of a Pelvis Suggests Social Care for Saber Tooths
A new display at La Brea Tar Pits showcases how modern science can shed new light on old fossils.
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