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Age of Mammals Now Open! 

The Museum has opened its newly restored 1913 Building with Age of Mammals — an exhibition 65 million years in the making.
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Also see a remarkable visualizaton that illustrates the major aspects of the 1913 Building's renovation, the Age of Mammals exhibition, and plans for our North Campus nature space in this L.A. Times
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Take a Class in NHM's Edible Garden

The Museum is a place for learning, inside and out. We’ll be hosting a series of gardening workshops in the Edible Garden on the South Lawn, where beginners will learn how to grow healthy and great-tasting vegetables and herbs from a certified Master Gardener. The series begins September 19. Learn more >

World's Best Preserved Mosasaur Fossil is at NHM  

One of the ocean’s most formidable marine predators, the marine mosasaur Platecarpus, lived in the Cretaceous Period some 85 million years ago and was thought to have swum like an eel. That theory is  debunked in a new paper published in the journal Public Library of Science. An international team of scientists (including our own Dr. Luis Chiappe) have reconceived the animal’s morphology, or body plan, based on a spectacular specimen housed at the NHM. Learn more >

Transforming our Galleries

Our rollout of new exhibitions is underway! Age of Mammals and the Haaga Family Rotunda exhibitions are open; Dinosaur Mysteries debuts in summer, 2011; and Under the Sun arrives in late 2012. Not only will these new exhibitions nearly triple the objects on view at NHM, they will tell stories that no other natural history museums tell. Learn more >

Lost Lizards of Los Angeles

With the Museum’s increasing interest in urban biodiversity, we have started looking at all types of wildlife in our highly modified industrial, suburban, and urban habitats. One thing that quickly struck us was that in our own “backyard,” Exposition Park, nobody had seen any lizards. This seemed strange, as lizards are common in other parts of Los Angeles, and it lead to the question “why are there no lizards here?” The answer to this question is the goal of the LLOLA (pronounced “Lola”) project. Learn more >