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Natural History Family of Museums
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North America’s Tiniest Dinosaur
NHM’s Dr. Luis Chiappe co-authored a paper on a newly classified dinosaur species, Fruitadens haagarorum. The smallest dinosaur ever found in North America weighed less than two pounds and was just 28 inches long.
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New Website
Next step for the Natural History Museum? A brand new website! The update of our online home is one of several steps in the Museum’s transformation.
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NHM Next
The 1913 Building is the Museum’s heart and soul: It’s the original component of our now sprawling structure, and housed our first precious collections. After two years of renovation, the Beaux-Arts gem reopened this year, catching the attention of news outlets and architecture trade press.
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The Eagle Lands Again
When the Museum opened in 1913, a six-foot terra cotta eagle perched atop its entrance. But after damage in a 1920 earthquake, it had to come down. Using Museum archival records and a little artistic imagination, a new statue was created.
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Project 23: New Discoveries at Rancho La Brea
In February of 2009 the Museum announced one of the most important discovery endeavors in the history of Rancho La Brea — the largest known deposit of fossils from the last ice age, including a nearly intact skeleton of a Columbian mammoth.
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Thomas the T. rex
NHM’s Thomas the T. rex Lab is a specially designed workroom where visitors may watch the actual work of paleontologists as they prepare and assemble the fossils of a 66-million-year-old Tyrannosaurus rex nicknamed Thomas
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Sauropod Discovery
Our Dinosaur Institute discovers the skeleton of a 150-million-year-old Sauropod while on an expedition in Utah.
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Museum’s Warehouse
An unassuming building near downtown Los Angeles houses bones, specimens, and the colorful history that goes with them.
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