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Fossil Wasp Galls From La Brea Tar Pits Indicate Little Change in Southern California Habitats Since Ice Age The La Brea Tar Pits, the world’s richest Ice Age fossil site, is famous for saber-toothed cats, mammoths, and giant sloths, but... November 9, 2015 The Secret World Inside You Opens at the American Museum of Natural History Opening on November 7, 2015, The Secret World Inside You, a special exhibition from the American Museum of Natural History, uses... November 5, 2015 Foot Fossils of Human Relative Illustrate the Evolutionary "Messiness" of Bipedal Walking The feet of extinct human relative Homo naledi were its most human-like feature - but weren't used to walk like us. October 6, 2015 Biologists Integrate Unmanned Aircraft Technology in Long-standing Canadian Wildlife Study In a portion of Manitoba, Canada, so remote you have to fly in by helicopter, a research team led by the University of North Dakota... September 29, 2015 Gigantic Dinosaur Inspires New Permanent Exhibit at the American Museum of Natural History Generations of visitors have flocked to see the renowned blue whale and iconic Tyrannosaurus rex, among other fossil dinosaurs, at... September 25, 2015 Polar Bears May Survive the Ice Melt, With or Without Seals As climate change accelerates ice melt in the Arctic, polar bears may find caribou and snow geese replacing seals as an important... September 4, 2015 AMNH Announces The Secret World Inside You This fall, the American Museum of Natural History presents The Secret World Inside You, a special exhibition that explores the rapidly... August 17, 2015 Live Butterflies Return to Enchant Visitors at the American Museum of Natural History The Butterfly Conservatory: Tropical Butterflies Alive in Winter, an annual favorite visited by millions of children and adults,... August 13, 2015 Saber-toothed Cats's Canines Took Years to Grow New research shows that the fearsome teeth of the saber-toothed cat Smilodon fatalis fully emerged at a later age than those of modern... July 1, 2015 Study Takes Close Look at Formidable Camel Spider Jaws For the first time, researchers have created a visual atlas and dictionary of terms for the many strange features on the fearsome-looking... June 22, 2015 Scarlet Macaw Skeletons Point to Early Emergence of Pueblo Hierarchy New work on the skeletal remains of scarlet macaws found in an ancient Pueblo settlement indicates that social and political hierarchies... June 22, 2015 Tiger-spray DNA Shown as Valuable Conservation Tool Conservation scientists have demonstrated a new technique to non-invasively survey tigers using their scent sprays, which are detected... June 18, 2015