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Fossils

Exhibitions

SEM Diatoms
Scanning Electron Microscope Lab

See how big discoveries can come from the tiniest things in the Gem and Mineral Hall.

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Discovery from the Deep: Ichthyosaur
Ichthyosaur

New Discoveries

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Visitors viewing an installation of a pregnant plesiosaur in the Dinosaur Hall
Exhibition | NHM
Dinosaur Hall

Step Into Our Award-winning Exhibition, and Enter the Age of Dinosaurs

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Onlookers watch scientists in the Fossil Lab
Exhibition | Tar Pits
Fossil Lab

What happens after the fossils at La Brea Tar Pits are excavated? This is where you find out.

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Events

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a group of small children watch a paleontologist work on a fossil with a tool

Adventures in Nature Day Camp: Jurassic Journey
Day Camps Youth
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a group of small children watch a paleontologist work on a fossil with a tool

Adventures in Nature Day Camp: Jurassic Journey
Day Camps Youth
  • 12 am
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Wed

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Jun

a group of small children watch a paleontologist work on a fossil with a tool

Adventures in Nature Day Camp: Jurassic Journey
Day Camps Youth
  • 12 am
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Thu

27

Jun

a group of small children watch a paleontologist work on a fossil with a tool

Adventures in Nature Day Camp: Jurassic Journey
Day Camps Youth
  • 12 am
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Fri

28

Jun

a group of small children watch a paleontologist work on a fossil with a tool

Adventures in Nature Day Camp: Jurassic Journey
Day Camps Youth
  • 12 am
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Stories

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Dino Fest 2020
Dino Fest Resources Guide
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Dino Fest 2023 art featuring Coelophysis
Dino Fest Resources Guide
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Mammal fossil - Dr. Jorge Velez-Juarbe
NHMLAC Discovery Talk with Dr. Jorge Velez-Juarbe

Join Dr. Jorge Velez-Juarbe as he explores the migration of vertebrate fauna to the Caribbean Islands and the effects of climate change on his field work.

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Puma skull from Project 23 at La Brea Tar Pits
Pebbles the Ice Age Puma
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Regan Dunn
Video: Happy Hour with Dr. Regan Dunn
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News & Press

New La Brea Tar Pits Display Shows How Modern Science Can Shed New Light on Old Fossils

Three revamped cases display how the journey of fossils from the asphalt to the lab can lead to incredible new discoveries about our world

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Natural History Museums of Los Angeles County’s Dr. Luis Chiappe Co-Authors Paper on Relationship Between Feathered Dinosaurs and Beetles

“Symbiosis between Cretaceous dinosaurs and feather-feeding beetles” published in the scientific journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

The paper looks at amber fragments preserving the remains of feathers from the Early Cretaceous and larvae related to modern feather-feeding beetles in intimate contact
 

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Global Natural History Initiative Builds Groundbreaking Database to Address 21st Century Challenges

Effort Connects More Than a Billion Objects in Scientific Collections Across 73 Museums in 28 Countries

Findings Shared in New Paper Published in Science Magazine on March 23, 2023
 

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Eating bamboo? It's all in the wrist.

An ancient fossil reveals the earliest panda to survive solely on bamboo and the evolutionary history of panda's false thumbs

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Earth’s First Giant

The two-meter skull of a humongous new ichthyosaur species, Earth’s first known giant creature, reveals how both the extinct marine reptiles and modern whales became giants
 

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