Stories

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

A color wheel of bird skins from the collection.
Research and Collections
The How and Why of Colorful Feathers
Equal parts ornithologist and evolutionary biologist, Assistant Ornithology Curator Dr. Allison Shultz has been investigating two questions throughout her research career: how are birds colorful, and why are birds colorful.
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Lisa Gonzalez at her microscope
Naturalist
Itsy-Bitsy Made Big
Our Insect Expert Trains Her Lens on the Tiny
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Luis and t rex trio
Research and Collections
Mind-Blown Science: Dr. Luis Chiappe and NHM's T. rex Trio
Dr. Luis Chiappe, Director of NHM's Dinosaur Institute, explains why NHM’s spectacular T. rex growth series blows his mind.
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mammoth exhibit tar pits mammoths and mastodons
Meet Hayden, the Metro Mammoth
A juvenile mammoth that was discovered during a dig for the new Metro
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T. rex skull in Dinosaur Hall
How to Grow a T. rex
How a T. rex growth series came to be
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Ant decapitating fly up-close
Research and Collections
Mind-Blown Science: The Ant-decapitating Fly
Violence in the insect world: a new type of ant decapitation
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Woolly Rhino in the snow.
Research and Collections
Woolly Rhino Fossil with Xiaoming Wang
Our researchers make exciting discoveries all over the world
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