The popular website PhD Comics has animated the thesis of Z. Jack Tseng, Ph.D., a Frick Postdoctoral Fellow in the Museum's Division of Paleontology. His thesis explores the evolution and bite of some "of the most awesome animals on Earth: hyenas." Watch the video.

Fermentation specialist Sandor Katz, author of The Art of Fermentation, joins a group of experts at the Museum Wednesday, April 24, for what promises to be a lively talk and tasting devoted to making your own fermented foods. 

Fifty-five million years ago, a group of hoofed mammals began a slow move from shore to sea, in time evolving a set of extraordinary features to thrive in their new environment. Today’s whales share many anatomical traits with other mammals, but the unique adaptations of species such as sperm whales illustrate how organisms can transform over time as they carve out their place on the planet.

Museum postdoctoral researcher Mary Blair recently traveled to Vietnam to search for nocturnal primates called slow lorises. Blair is currently writing about the experience on The New York Times’ Scientist at Work: Notes from the Field blog.

For one year, biologist David Haskell watched the same, one-square-meter patch of old growth forest in the mountains of Tennessee. In this podcast, Dr. Haskell shares some of the stories and scientific insights from his book, “The Forest Unseen,” which chronicles his experience of closely observing one small ecosystem.