Featured Expeditions
Costa Rica
In 2003, scientists from the Natural History Museum, the California Academy of Sciences, and the Instituto Nacional de Biodiversidad traveled to Costa Rica to collect sea slugs. Go there »
Mongolia
By invitation of the National University of Mongolia, researchers from the NHM Crustacea Section embarked on a biological survey of branchiopod crustaceans of central Mongolia. Go there »
Vietnam
Scientists from our herpetology, mammalogy, and polychaete (marine worms) departments together with a museum educator, set off on a research expedition to explore Vietnam. Go there »
 
Activities for Educators
Scientists may travel to exotic places to do fieldwork or they may stay close to home. In these ecology activities, your students will research the diversity of animals found in their schoolyard or a local park. Learn more »
Field Trips

Red Rock Canyon
Paleontologists at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, along with help from the public, are piecing together this puzzle by studying the rich vertebrate fossils and unique geology of the Western Mojave Desert.
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