Stories
Welcome to Stories, a place to explore—and be inspired by—the wonder of our natural and cultural worlds.
NHM Scientists Discover There Are Way More Bugs in California Than You Thought
DNA barcoding more than a million insect specimens as part of the California Insect Barcode Initiative helps scientists grow the number of insect species in California to more than 60,000
NHM Scientists Brace for Unlikely Visitors and Strange Creatures During the Super El Niño
It's the strongest El Niño in more than a hundred years, and far-flung creatures are already arriving in Southern California, with more expected in the coming months. Studying them will help NHM researchers better understand the impacts of the massive climate event.
Coffee, Mayan culture, and Connecting to the Land
Rosa Gonzales, Jefri Lindo, Michaela Zholovnik, Christopher Lindo, DeBora Xon and Elvis Gonzales | Ülëw Coffee and Juice
Black Bears in Your Los Angeles Backyard
We asked our Curator of Mammalogy and Curator of Community Science what to do about big, hairy nosy neighbors
The Connection Between Orcas and Humans with NHM's Mammalogist Amanda Killian
Dive deep into the fascinating complexities of Earth's orcas
Our Antarctic Explorer
Voyage alongside Dr. Tania Pineda-Enriquez, Collections Manager of Echinoderms, who recently returned from an epic expedition to document sea creatures inhabiting one of the most remote places on Earth—Antarctica.
Barcoding the Shoreline
Our Marine Biodiversity Center scientists have been sampling tidepools to build a "biolibrary" to identify the inhabitants of the coast's precious ecosystems.
Fusion of the Soul: Reclaiming Ancestral Foodways from the Prairie to the Pacific
Pyet DeSpain | Chef and Author