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See the frigid continent of Antarctica in a new light through the mesmerizing work of award-winning photographer Diane Tuft.
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Wild L.A. Field Trip: Tidepooling
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L.A. Nature Fest
L.A. Nature Fest is a two-day festival that celebrates L.A.'s wild side!
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Digitization of collections unlocks climate clues.
The last 66 million years of fish evolution
The glass rope sponge is a true marine oddity.
DISCO collects specimens down by the docks
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The Natural History Museum is leading a two-week expedition to the urban ocean waters of the Los Angeles region to dramatically improve our knowledge of Southern California marine biodiversity.
Most species on Earth are animals, and most animals are invertebrates, so most of the Earth’s astonishing biodiversity is in the invertebrate animals. The Marine Biodiversity Center is the museum’s core facility for the curation of these remarkable animals. Collections come to the museum from a variety of research projects and government agencies.
An ongoing program at the Natural History Museum aims to develop research and monitoring tools to enormously accelerate our ability to discover and investigate marine invertebrate biodiversity of California’s nearshore waters.
While NHM is not currently working on these projects, they have influenced our current community science projects.
Our researchers are devoted to better understanding our coastal communities — both now and in the past — and the thousands of animals that live (or lived) there.
Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County Presents Frozen in Time: Images of Antarctica.
