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Make your own bird feeder and record your observations in a bird journal.
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Find out what's so fascinating about these beautiful, pink birds.
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Can you find all 16 birds in this sanctuary? When you do, listen to their songs.
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Confuciusornis is the earliest-known toothless, beaked bird.
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With its bird-like features, this animal was mistaken for a giant bird for a while.
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According to legend, the roc was a giant bird large and strong enough to carry an elephant in its claws. As incredibl...
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An invasive species is a living thing that moves into a new region. Species often become "invasive" as a re...
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At age 10, George Barrowclough began bird watching with his dad. He pursued his interest in birds by becoming an orni...
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Ornithologists, or scientists who study birds, want to prevent the forests of the Pacific Northwest from being choppe...
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The whooping crane is known as the tallest bird in North America. This long legged creature has been struggling to su...
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This large dark bird is unmistakable soaring in the air along the coast.
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This rare lizard lived in the Gobi Desert about 80 million years ago. 
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The mythic bird-creature Garuda is often shown attacking Nagas, snakelike creatures with human heads.
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Match up these eight dinosaur fossil photos with their descriptions.
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Learn how to look at a bunch of bones and draw what a dinosaur looked like. 
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Growing up, Joel Cracraft loved reading travel and adventure books. In high school, he became interested in ornitholo...
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This extinct bird weighed over 330 pounds and had heavy legs and tiny wings. 
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When most people think of flamingos, they imagine the delicate pink bird wading in a warm and sunny tropical marsh. N...
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California condors are the largest birds in North America. Like all vultures, condors are carrion-eaters. This means...
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New Caledonia, a tiny island east of Australia, is the only place where an unusual bird called the kagu is found. Abo...
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His love of natural sciences and extreme camping led this scientist to paleontology.
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Test your knowledge about the variety of life on Earth with this quiz.
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The American crocodile has lived on Earth for millions of years, but today their numbers are rapidly declining becaus...
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This mighty member of the cat family is a powerful predator. It can leap up to 30 feet in the air, climb trees, and e...
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The frigid waters of the Arctic and the Antarctic may seem like hostile habitats. But a variety of marine life -- fro...
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Named in 2000, this dinosaur is hot off the "paleo" presses! Unlike the jagged teeth of other troodontids,...
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This living dinosaur is also known by its common name, the Martineta tinamou. 
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This prehistoric relative of living ducks had a long neck, tall legs, webbed feet, and a duck-like head.
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The St. Vincent parrot makes its home on the tropical island of St. Vincent in the Caribbean. These parrots are cover...
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Effigia looks just like a dinosaur. It particularly looks a lot like bird-like dinosaurs called ornithomimids, or ost...
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Create your own miniature Mesozoic Museum. Don't forget to invite your friends and family to the opening!
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Join the inquisitive Deena Soris as she interviews the fossil of a Protoceratops. 
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The Dzanga-Sangha rain forest is alive with the sounds of snakes, chimpanzees, birds, insects, and many exotic creatu...
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When you wake up in the morning, you might see sunlight through your window, hear birds chirping, or smell breakfast.
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Susan Perkins has always loved being outside. As a child, she played in the woods and took field notes about birds an...
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All living organisms need energy to live. Organisms such as plants get this energy from the Sun. But animals get this...
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The Sumatran tiger is found in only one place on the Earth -- on the island of Sumatra in Indonesia. Fewer than 500 o...
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Polar bears are the top predator of the icy Arctic. But these large, furry white mammals have to work hard for their...
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The Komodo dragon lumbers through the forest on its thick, stocky legs. It sways its head back and forth, flicking it...
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Its brow horns and snout horn inspired this dinosaur's name, which means "three-horned face."
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The most dazzling feature on many pterosaurs was a spectacular head crest. Tupuxuara leonardii had one of the most im...
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The name Jurassic conjures images of tremendous dinosaurs roaming the Earth.
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At the top of the world is a cold and icy area called the Arctic. It is made up of the Arctic Ocean and parts of Nort...
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For over 1,000 years, people called the Inuit lived in the Arctic. Long ago, they relied on fishing and hunting for s...
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Sauropods weren't just the largest dinosaurs. They were also the largest animals to ever live on land. The sauropod M...
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The first vertebrates to fly took to the skies about 215 million years ago. These creatures were neither birds nor ba...
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The snowy egret is a beautiful sight. An adult egret is distinguished by its dark slender beak, long black legs, and...
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There are more than 250 kinds of vipers, a family of poisonous snakes. The largest of all is the gabon viper.
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About 100 million years ago, a flying reptile called Pterodaustro guinazui soared above the coast of what is now Arge...
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In Japan, a frightening water creature called the kappa was long known for pulling children underwater and drowning t...
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For Steve Quinn, art and science have always gone hand-in-hand. As a kid, he liked to draw and make clay models of di...
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This theropod belonged to a group called ornithomimids, also called "ostrich-mimics." 
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Bury chicken bones in plaster of Paris to see the challenges paleontologists face when excavating fossils.
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When he was 8 years old, Theodore Roosevelt found a seal skull. It would be the first specimen in his very own natura...
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Today, unicorns are creatures of fairy tales. But thousands of years ago, people believed these creatures were real,...
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Examine fossils and gather clues from experts!
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Send a note to a friend with these colorful letterheads.
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This is one of the oldest known dinosaurs!
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With its long, dramatic crest, the giant Pteranodon longiceps is easy to recognize.
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Explore this family tree of living things on Earth.
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Thousands of plants and animal species may be in danger of becoming extinct and disappearing forever.
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Paleontologists uncovered this just-hatched Protoceratops in 1997 at Ukhaa Tolgod.
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It's no fluke that Howard Rosenbaum is wild about whales -- especially the endangered right whales and humpback whales.
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Scientists have identified over 1.75 million species on Earth -- over one million of them are insects and spiders.
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Even though this whale of a whale weighs many tons, the humpback whale can make acrobatic leaps out of the water!
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If you came face to face with a pacu, what would you do? Never fear -- the pacu may look like a big and scary fish, b...
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Saying "deoxyribonucleic acid" is a real mouthful. Luckily, you can call it DNA for short.
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As a conservation geneticist, Yael tries to help endangered species by studying their DNA.
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In the wild, ruffed lemurs live in only one place -- the eastern rain forests of Madagascar.
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Earth was a very different place at the beginning of the Triassic. All of Earth's continents were combined into one s...
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From Madagascar to Indonesia, travel around the world with Museum scientists.
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Until 1828, pterosaur fossils had been found only in Germany. Then a new kind of pterosaur fossil was discovered in E...
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Unlike modern reptiles, pterosaurs weren't covered in scales. They were covered in fuzz! Pterosaurs kept warm with a...
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Imagine a flying reptile the size of a two-seater plane! That's Quetzalcoatlus, one of the largest flying animals eve...
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This horned dinosaur had two long spikes on the back of its frill, the bony extension behind its skull.
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What do we have in common with sharks, bluebirds, lizards, and toads? We are all vertebrates, or animals with backbon...
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The king cobra is the largest venomous snake in the world. Whether slithering on land, climbing trees, or swimming, i...
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The hellbender is one of the largest salamanders in North America.
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The electric eel is long and narrow like an eel, but it is actually not an eel at all. In fact, electric eels are pro...
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Oviraptor was a bizarre-looking, toothless dinosaur. 
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Psittacosaurus is one of the oldest and most primitive ceratopians ever found!
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Museum scientists made a surprising discovery in the Gobi Desert: an egg that contained the remains of a tiny dinosau...
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That toothy grin might make you think this is a crocodile or an alligator. But the Yacaré caiman is neither. Caimans...
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Around the North Pole, temperatures are so cold that parts of the ocean turn into solid ice called "sea ice.
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Take a peek inside two paleontologists' scrapbook.
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To try to piece together how organisms are related, scientists use cladistics.
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Many people have seen the beautiful spiral triton trumpet shell. Unfortunately, most people can see these brown and w...
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Most mammals that live on land use their legs to get around. But the white-handed gibbon relies mostly on its arms. U...
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The Asian elephant is one of the largest land mammals in the world. Some people believe that elephants feel joy and s...
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The leatherback is the world's largest turtle. Unlike the bony exterior of other sea turtles, the exterior of the lea...
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Cassava is one tough plant because it can grow in poor and unfertile soil in most tropical environments. Cassava is a...
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Dinoflagellates are tiny, one-celled organisms that live in oceans and freshwater ponds, rivers, and streams. Some di...
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Giant puffballs aren't your typical mushrooms.
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Most people know red and black spotted ladybird beetles as friendly insects that are fun to pick up and watch fly awa...
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Compared to the continent of Africa, Madagascar may seem small. But this island, the fourth largest in the world, is...
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If you looked at the contents of a vacuum cleaner bag with a microscope, you'd probably find millions of tiny creatur...
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You might think that all mosquitoes are alike, but did you know that there are actually about 2,500 different kinds?...
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Although the rosy periwinkle stands only one foot tall, in the world of medicine it's a giant.
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This beautiful tortoise lives in the deserts of Madagascar, an island off the coast of Africa. This reptile gets its...
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A rotting log is a mighty tasty meal -- if you're a termite. Termites not only eat wood, some kinds live in it, too....
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One of the earlier dinosaurs to appear on Earth was Coelophysis. It was a small, but skilled hunter that lived during...
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Vietnam is a country of amazing biodiversity, including many rare and unusual species. One fascinating example is the...
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For centuries, orange roughy went mostly unnoticed by humans. These fish thrived in the dark, the cold, and the inten...
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Tipping the scales at more than 7 pounds, the Goliath is the largest frog in the world. Just two of these frogs weigh...
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It only seems like the world's entire ant population attends your picnics.
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This real-life "Indiana Jones" led the first AMNH expeditions to the Gobi Desert in Mongolia.
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Every summer, Museum paleontologists join Mongolian scientists to hunt for fossils. 
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Located in the Gobi Desert, this is a fossil "hot spot" for Museum paleontologists. 
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Although extinct today, this gopher-sized mammal thrived during the Mesozoic Era for about two million years.
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This massive plant-eater lived about 100 million years ago. Today, a cast of this 122-foot long titanosaur welcomes v...
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In the 1920s, the first team of Museum paleontologists trekked to the Gobi Desert in Mongolia.
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Mongolia is a large country in the middle of Asia. Its Gobi Desert is a fossil "gold mine" for paleont...
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Many famous dinosaurs, such as T. rex and Triceratops, first appeared in the Cretaceous Period.
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Flashback to 80 million years ago in the Gobi Desert. Deltatheridium scurried among dinosaurs.
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A dinosaur book led to this paleontologist's lifelong fascination with fossils.
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Archaeologists use many kinds of tools when they excavate, from large shovels to toothbrushes. But the trowel is thei...
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Many artifacts at the American Museum of Natural History will spend time in the Conservation Lab, the Museum's hospit...
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Are these rare and colorful creatures flowering plants or animals?
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With their white bellies and dark backs, dolphins can be found jumping above the water, swimming alongside fishing sh...
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The Tibetan antelope, also known as "chiru," is one of the most beautiful mammals in the world.
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The mountain gorilla lives high up in the forests of east central Africa.
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Have you ever seen pond scum -- that thick, smelly layer of slime floating on the surface of the water? That's probab...
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Based on fossils of ancient dragonflies, we know these winged insects have been soaring around for at least 300 milli...
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Think of giant kelp as the Godzilla of the seaweeds.
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The Portuguese man-of-war is actually a floating colony of individuals called polyps that are all dependent on each o...
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Some exotic creatures lurk in the polar seas, but perhaps none is more bizarre than the giant sea spider.
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It's easy to see how the starfish got its name -- with their pointed arms, these creatures look like stars fallen to...
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Not all spiders spin webs to catch their meals. When night falls in Australia, the white-tailed spider hunts its prey...
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Antarctica is like no other place on Earth. The continent is covered almost entirely by a thick ice sheet. Yet there...
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Of all the dinosaurs to roam the Earth, the largest ones belonged to a group called sauropods- huge plant-eating dino...