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Bat Specimens from the Mammalogy Collection laid back to back with their specimen tags visible
Research and Collections
Digitized Mammals
How the new digitization project Ranges is unlocking the potential of NHM's Mammalogy Collection
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Riding Low, Rising High
Sandy Avila | Lady Lowriders
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Bridget Altman Paskil at Ghost Ranch New Mexico
More than a rock
Our intrepid colleague's dig diary from her fossil-finding expedition to Ghost Ranch, New Mexico.
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NHM's Favorite Cinematic Dinos
Watch a video compilation of our top picks for the fiercest, weirdest, and kitschiest dinosaur movies through history. Travel back through their cinematic history from Jurassic Park's T. rex to Arlo, The Good Dinosaur.
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A Northern White Rhino Skeleton From the San Diego Zoo Comes to NHM
The new specimen highlights the crucial relationship zoos play in ensuring rare and endangered species are represented in museum collections.
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Violet-colored Sea Snails, Janthina janthina, Wash up on SoCal Beaches
NHM's Jann Vendetti discusses the ocean-dwelling purple colored snails that washed up on Southern California beaches in July 2025.
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Our Dinosaur Librarian
Meet Maureen Walsh, Collections Manager of the Dinosaur Institute, who protects and presides over the Museum’s world-class collection of thousands of specimens spanning the millions of years dinosaurs stomped, darted, and soared around our prehistoric planet
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A fairy poppy bee on a dark orange background of a California poppy
The Fairy Poppy Bee's Dance of Fragility and Resilience
Discover one of the 1600 species of native California bees and the intimate portraits in conservation photographer Krystle Hickman's forthcoming book, The ABCs of California Native Bees 
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2025 UNLAB Symposium
UNLAB researchers share insights from their collections-based research conducted at the Natural History Museum.
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