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The Museum's Giant Squid
The Museum has one of the few specimens of Architeuthis kirkii housed in a museum in North America, says Curator Neil H. Landman, who studies fossil and living invertebrates in the Division of Paleontology.
Behind the Scenes at the Museum
Take a peek at the Museum's collections, exhibitions, and some of the everyday—and extraordinary—things that happen behind the scenes.
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Nabokov's Type
Author Vladimir Nabokov was devoted to lepidopterology, the study of moths and butterflies.
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From the Archives: Exploring
A boy uses a microscope in the Museum's Natural Science Center for Young People in 1969.
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Graduate Study at the Museum
Home to the Richard Gilder Graduate School, the Museum is the first museum in the Western Hemisphere to grant the Ph.D. degree.
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A T. Rex Teeth Cleaning
Using a lift in the Hall of Saurischian Dinosaurs, a staff member reaches into the iconic dinosaur's jaw.
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From the Archives: Dinosaur Tracks
Museum staff install sauropod dinosaur tracks from Texas in what was then the Jurassic Dinosaur Hall in 1952.
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Crafting Jellyfish
Models of the crystal jelly, shown at 10 times life size, were crafted in the Exhibition Studio for Creatures of Light.
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From the Archives: Grand Canyon
Artist Charles Chapman painted the background for the mountain lion diorama in the Hall of North American Mammals, which features the Grand Canyon, in 1941.
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Dinoflagellate
These microscopic marine organisms have puzzled scientists for centuries.
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From the Archives: Bison Diorama
A Museum staff member prepares a model diorama for one of the iconic scenes in the Hall of North American Mammals in 1939.
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Ammonite Collection
Ammonites are an extinct type of shelled mollusk that’s closely related to modern-day nautiluses and squids.
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Video: Repainting Salmon in the Brown Bear Diorama
This iconic diorama in the Bernard Family Hall of North American Mammals features a rare non-mammalian star: the salmon, caught by an otter and poached by two hungry bears.
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Ponyfish Model
A Museum artist works on a model of a male golden ponyfish for the exhibition Creatures of Light.
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Inside the Ichthyology Collection
The Museum's Ichthyology Collection includes approximately 2 million specimens.
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From the Archives: Mastodon
Museum staff move a skeleton of a mastodon, a species that disappeared 10,000 years ago as part of a mass extinction of large mammals in North America.