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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 Spiders Alive! Returns to the American Museum of Natural History Back by popular demand at the American Museum of Natural History, Spiders Alive! is a comprehensive look at the fascinating and complex... June 16, 2015 Building Better Skull Models For Ancient Carnivores New modeling and tests based on living species done at the American Museum of Natural History show that the link between animal diets... April 29, 2015 Planet Formation Relied on Sweeping up of Small Glassy Beads New research proposes that chondrules, small glassy beads that make up the bulk of the most primitive meteorites, played a crucial... April 17, 2015 Life at the Limits: Stories of Amazing Species Life at the Limits: Stories of Amazing Species, a new exhibition opening April 4 at the American Museum of Natural History in the... March 31, 2015 Solving the Darwinian Mystery of "Strange" South American Mammals Scientists have resolved pieces of a nearly 200-year-old evolutionary puzzle surrounding the group of mammals that Charles Darwin... March 18, 2015