Stories

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

Vela Muxe Los Angeles
Research and Collections
Beyond Gender: Indigenous Perspectives, Muxe
A limited series on some of the world's third gender Indigenous people
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non-native brown widow spider
Widow Wars
Help document the impacts of the invasive brown widow spider across Southern California
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cyprinodon_nevadensis_shoshone
Research and Collections
Fishes Across America: Shoshone, California
Hit the road from your home and dive into the biodiversity of freshwater fishes across the U.S.
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Charlotta Bass the first African-American woman to own a newspaper in the U.S.
The Pioneering Charlotta Bass
Hers was a life of inaugurals—the first African-American woman to own a newspaper, and the first to be nominated for Vice President
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Tapeworm
Research and Collections
Preserve Our Parasites
Conserving unseen worlds of misunderstood organisms
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Blue Morpho
Out-of-State Butterflies
Get to know our state butterfly and visitors from the tropics in this year's Butterfly Pavilion
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Kayce Bell in Panama
Safer with Science
Scientific expertise lays a path through uncertainty
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