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Nature Lab

Live animals and hands-on interactives show you L.A.’s wild side.

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Kids & Family Youth

Adventures in Nature Day Camp: Insect Investigators

Join us for bug-themed projects, up-close encounters with live bugs, time in the Museum’s expansive Nature Gardens and Nature Lab, and the chance to meet real museum entomologists!

weekly

through 07/02/26

  • 12:00 am
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Kids & Family Youth

Adventures in Nature Day Camp: Insect Investigators

Join us for bug-themed projects, up-close encounters with live bugs, time in the Museum’s expansive Nature Gardens and Nature Lab, and the chance to meet real museum entomologists!

weekly

through 07/02/26

  • 12:00 am
nhm
Kids & Family Youth

Adventures in Nature Day Camp: Insect Investigators

Join us for bug-themed projects, up-close encounters with live bugs, time in the Museum’s expansive Nature Gardens and Nature Lab, and the chance to meet real museum entomologists!

weekly

through 07/02/26

  • 12:00 am
nhm
Kids & Family Youth

Adventures in Nature Day Camp: Insect Investigators

Join us for bug-themed projects, up-close encounters with live bugs, time in the Museum’s expansive Nature Gardens and Nature Lab, and the chance to meet real museum entomologists!

weekly

through 07/02/26

  • 12:00 am
nhm

Adventures in Nature Day Camp: Paleo Tales

From dinosaurs to Ice Age animals, campers will make discoveries through paleo-inspired activities, meet paleontologists, and interact with real fossils!

weekly

through 07/31/26

  • 12:00 am

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GeckoWatch

GeckoWatch is a community science project to map the fine-scale distribution of nonnative geckos in the United States.

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News & Press

From Mosasaurs to Snakes and Lizards, “Megafilters” Shape Reptile Fossil Collections

The environment and the durability of their bones are the drivers behind which reptiles—and which parts of reptiles—end up shaping museum collections and our understanding of the fossil record.

New Species of Armored, Monstersaur Lizard that Lived Alongside Dinosaurs Identified by NHM Paleontologists

Discovery of Bolg amondol, a name inspired by J.R.R. Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings universe, reveals the complex evolutionary history of giant Gila Monster relatives
 

Ancient Crocodile-Like Predators Ruled the Islands of the Caribbean

A new study finds that land-dwelling crocodile-like sebecids were the apex predators of the West Indies, surviving on the islands after vanishing from South America

A Lighthouse in the Gobi Desert

A new study quantifies the impact of the world’s great fossil sites on our understanding of evolutionary relationships between fossil groups and discovers the key to understanding lizard evolutionary history in the Gobi Desert.