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Welcome to Stories, a place to explore—and be inspired by—the wonder of our natural and cultural worlds.

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L.A.’s OG Hawowshi

Amir Edward | The Original Hawowshi
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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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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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Dakota in Dino Hall

Step Inside a Dinosaur Puppet!

Get a behind-the-scenes look at the new Dinosaur Encounters.
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With Love, Biscotti

Nick Panepinto | Liberation Coffee House
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Huckleberry Cafe

Made With Love
Jennifer Toomey | Huckleberry Bakery & Café
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Esperanza Elementary Student Birders Yanny, Bryan, Ervin and Principal Brad Rumble
Nature in L.A.

Kickball. Soccer. Birding. Birding?!

By Esperanza Elementary School students Bryan Lopez, Ervin Paxtor, Yanny Reyes Sanchez, and their principal, Brad Rumble. 
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Hot, Crumbly Buttery Love in a Biscuit

Monica May & Kristen Trattner | Nickel Diner
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