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Do you dig the Earth? If so, you'll want to meet Ed.

Since he was a kid, George Amato has been wild about wildlife. Today he works for the Wildlife Conservation Society a...

Tracking a gorilla can get hairy. Literally. Just ask George Amato.

Find out why Alice in Wonderland is Mandë's favorite poison story.

The oceans are filled with creatures that use poison to survive. Some use chemical defenses to deter predators. Other...

Melanie Stiassny has been fascinated by fish from the time she was a little girl living in London. Today, Melanie is...

Watch these videos to explore Felicity's work as a conservation biologist.

Find out how paleontologist John Flynn answered kids' questions.

Ancient trash or ancient treasure? This archaeologist tells us which he prefers.

What does this marine biologist like most about her work? Find out!

Eleanor Sterling is the Director for the Center for Biodiversity and Conservation at the American Museum of Natural H...

Many historians consider English scientist Sir Isaac Newton the first modern physicist. He explained how gravity affe...

As a kid, John Flynn had a rock collection and made lots of trips with his family and school to the American Museum o...

When most people think of flamingos, they imagine the delicate pink bird wading in a warm and sunny tropical marsh. N...

Ross MacPhee has always loved dirt. It means the opportunity to find lost things--from bones and teeth to pirate trea...

Susan Perkins has always loved being outside. As a child, she played in the woods and took field notes about birds an...

What does Chris like most about studying reptiles and amphibians? Find out!

Why does this scientist love studying tiny living things called microbes?

Ross MacPhee has always loved dirt. To him it means the opportunity to find lost things — from bones and teeth to pirate treasure.

Dive into the oceans with an ichthyologist.

Ed Mathez has always been fascinated by rocks and the Earth. As a young boy, he went with his mother to old rock quar...

When Paula Mikkelsen moved to Florida, she turned a fun hobby into an exciting career. She enjoyed walking along Flor...

Jim is fascinated with volcanoes. He wants to know why some volcanoes erupt explosively, and how he might be able to...

When she was a kid, Ana explored the landscapes of rural Uruguay and Brazil and the many plants and animals that live...

Just a century ago, many people died from minor bacterial infections and diseases. A simple cut or strep throat could...

These tropical freshwater fishes come in so many colors, shapes, and sizes, it's nearly impossible to sum up the fami...

Chris Raxworthy has been fascinated by all things scaly and slimy since he was a kid. Chris is a herpetologist at the...

Since he was a boy, Vladimir Ovtsharenko has been fascinated by nature. Growing up, he loved collecting spiders, beet...

In college, Laurel Kendall had so many interests she couldn't decide on a major. Then she took a class in anthropolog...

As an Eagle Scout, David Hurst Thomas was always on the lookout for ancient Indian camps. He never found one as a kid...

In the forests of Central and South America grows the vibrant passionflower with deep red flowers and juicy yellow fr...

Gravity is the force of attraction between all objects in the Universe. Objects with more mass have greater gravitati...

When "ologists" observe plants, animals, fossils, or rocks, they know they won't remember every detail. So...

Find out from a zooarchaeologist how humans have tamed and bred horses.

Jade is a special and rare rock. For thousands of years, people around the world have been using this durable and bea...

Einstein might never have become a worldwide celebrity had it not been for the English astrophysicist Arthur Eddington.

Ian Harrison first became interested in sea life during family vacations to the southwest coast of England.

Gregor Mendel not only ate his peas, he used them to figure out how genes are passed from generation to generation. I...

Albert Einstein was a Nobel Prize-winning physicist who changed the way we think about our world and our Universe.

Marie Sklodowska Curie was born in Poland during a time when women were prohibited from receiving a college education.

Considered a pioneer in astronomy, Johannes Kepler is best known for his three laws of planetary motion.

Carefully removing the fossils without damaging them takes talent, special tools, and lots of patience.

The king cobra is the largest venomous snake in the world. Whether slithering on land, climbing trees, or swimming, i...

Galileo was a "jack of all trades." He was a musician, a philosopher, a physicist, and an astronomer. He is...

As a conservation geneticist, Yael tries to help endangered species by studying their DNA.

In college, Rob DeSalle wanted to study the narwhal, an Arctic whale with an eight-foot spiral tooth.

Growing up in Panama, Chuck was interested in old ruins, Spanish forts, and archaeological sites. In college, he work...

Christina was always fascinated by archaeology because it combined her love of history with her interest in world cul...

Craig Morris knows there's no such thing as too many artifacts.

Over 100 years ago, an archaeologist named Marshall Saville began exploring ancient ruins in Mexico.

Like many kids interested in science, Ro Kinzler thought she wanted to be a marine biologist. But later on, she reali...

Scientists all over the world send precious cargo to Julie Feinstein: frozen samples of animal tissues.

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...

When Martha Hurley first took science as a kid, she thought it was boring. She'd rather be outside exploring nature....

His love of natural sciences and extreme camping led this scientist to paleontology.

Edwin Hubble was one of the great astronomers of the 20th century. His work made the Universe a bigger place. He prov...

On a clear night, Mike Shara sees more than just the beautiful twinkling of stars when he gazes at the sky.

As a kid growing up in New York City, Rebecca Oppenheimer always wanted to study stars and planets. She never dreamed...

In college, Mordecai-Mark Mac Low decided to take science classes that looked like fun. So he chose astrophysics, whi...

When he was 8 years old, Theodore Roosevelt found a seal skull. It would be the first specimen in his very own natura...

In 1910, British naval officer Robert Falcon Scott set sail for Antarctica aboard the Terra Nova. He hoped to be the...

Henry Bowers was no stranger to the sea. He had sailed around the world 5 times. But when he join- ed Robert Scott's...

Apsley Cherry-Garrard was 24 when he joined Robert Scott's expedition to Antarctica. Known as "Cherry," he...

As a child in Norway, Roald Amundsen dreamed of being a polar explorer. At 26, he was one of the first people to spen...

Oscar Wisting was part of the famous Antarctic expedition led by the Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen. He was a tale...

In the early 1900s, Olav Bjaaland was a skiing champion in Norway. In 1910, he joined famous explorer Roald Amundsen...

At age 10, George Barrowclough began bird watching with his dad. He pursued his interest in birds by becoming an orni...

Growing up, Joel Cracraft loved reading travel and adventure books. In high school, he became interested in ornitholo...

It's no fluke that Howard Rosenbaum is wild about whales -- especially the endangered right whales and humpback whales.

Sterling was always fascinated by nature, ancient history, and archaeology. Since he was 15 years old, he has spent e...

This real-life "Indiana Jones" led the first AMNH expeditions to the Gobi Desert in Mongolia.

As a kid, Neil Tyson first glimpsed the magic of the Universe in the Hayden Planetarium at the American Museum of Nat...

A dinosaur book led to this paleontologist's lifelong fascination with fossils.

Before telescopes were invented, people gazed at the night sky with amazement and dreamed of a closer look.

George Harlow travels the world over to study how jade, rubies, and diamonds form. George wants to find out what thes...

Albert Einstein is famous for making many revolutionary discoveries. But perhaps Einsteins most famous discovery was...

Thousands of years ago, nomads traveled throughout the area that is now Peru. Eventually, they settled into villages...

About 80 million years ago in the Gobi Desert, sixteen dinosaurs hatched in this nest. One of the hatchlings died bef...

More than 60 moons orbit Jupiter. One of these moons is Europa. It is especially intriguing to scientists. Miles belo...

Would you measure the distance between New York and New Delhi in inches? For the same reason, astronomers don't use m...

The Sumatran tiger is found in only one place on the Earth -- on the island of Sumatra in Indonesia. Fewer than 500 o...

That toothy grin might make you think this is a crocodile or an alligator. But the Yacaré caiman is neither. Caimans...

If you ever find a pseudoscorpion in your bathtub, don't worry! These tiny arachnids are harmless to humans.

Five hundred years ago, a great empire stretched along the Andes mountains and the Pacific coast of South America.

In the 1940s, paleontologists from the American Museum of Natural History discovered rich fossil beds in the high des...

The Hubble Space Telescope is the first major optical telescope to orbit Earth.

In the 1920s, the first team of Museum paleontologists trekked to the Gobi Desert in Mongolia.

Compared to other titanosaurs, Gondwanatitan was a peewee at only about 7.5 meters (25 feet) long.

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Challenge your friends to this Mesozoic Era card game.

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Who will be the first to diversify their gut microbiome and win?

Find out why a ball thrown in the air will return to the ground.

Meet six rocks that travelled to the Museum from places like Mexico, Scotland, and even outer space.

This plant-eating dinosaur might have weighed as much as 225 kilograms (500 pounds)!

This "king tyrant lizard" was one of the largest carnivores that ever lived.

This predator has fast feet, a pair of "killing claws," and more than 60 jagged teeth!

Obsidian doesn't look like your typical rock. In fact, it looks more like dark glass than a rock you'd pick up in you...

The plates that make up the Earth's crust are always moving. When two plates meet, the motion causes lots of pressure...

This is one of the oldest known dinosaurs!

This living dinosaur is also known by its common name, the Martineta tinamou.

This prehistoric relative of living ducks had a long neck, tall legs, webbed feet, and a duck-like head.

Because of the diamond-shaped plates on its back, Stegosaurus was given a name that means "roof lizard."

Oviraptor was a bizarre-looking, toothless dinosaur.

Dug up in the Alxa Desert in China, this is the oldest and most complete therizinosaur ever found.

This theropod belonged to a group called ornithomimids, also called "ostrich-mimics."

As you can tell from its body plates and tail spikes, this dinosaur is related to Stegosaurus.

This horned dinosaur had two long spikes on the back of its frill, the bony extension behind its skull.

This plant-eating dinosaur was an ornithopod, as are duck-bill dinosaurs.

With its bird-like features, this animal was mistaken for a giant bird for a while.

Estuaries are places where a river meets the sea. This ever-changing ecosystem is bursting with life. Saltwater from...

Effigia looks just like a dinosaur. It particularly looks a lot like bird-like dinosaurs called ornithomimids, or ost...

When the famous Tyrannosaurus rex roamed North America, a very similar dinosaur was living on the other side of the E...

This primitive armored dinosaur had bony plates and spikes that served almost like armor.

Its brow horns and snout horn inspired this dinosaur's name, which means "three-horned face."

Meet some of the more unusual members of T. rex and Velociraptor's family tree.

Sauropods weren't just the largest dinosaurs. They were also the largest animals to ever live on land. The sauropod M...

This famous long-necked, long-tailed wonder belongs to a group called "sauropods."

This massive plant-eater lived about 100 million years ago. Today, a cast of this 122-foot long titanosaur welcomes v...

Animals and plants are usually adapted to survive best in particular environments, known as their habitats.

You have to be a really big thinker to imagine the size of the Universe.

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Volcanoes, tsunamis, earthquakes... Examine how plate tectonics affect our world!

Albert Einstein made many great contributions to science that include the Special Theory of Relativity and the Genera...

In this interview, meet the cast of a titanosaur, one of the largest dinosaurs ever found!

With its swirling column of wind, a tornado is one of nature’s most destructive storms.

Find out what makes the Sun glow, and other amazing facts, in an up-close interview with the Sun.

Deformed conglomerate is a metamorphic rock that has been changed by heat and pressure.

Granite is an igneous rock, which means it formed from magma, or melted rock. It forms deep inside the Earth under a...

Igneous rocks form when magma, or melted rock from inside the Earth, cools and hardens. They can form above ground wh...

Deep inside the Earth, intense heat and pressure can change rocks into entirely new metamorphic rocks.

Some volcanoes erupt explosively, like opening a shaken soda bottle, because their magma is full of gases.

For thousands of years, the dragon has been an unmistakable symbol around the world. But this lizard-like beast doesn...

Despite its ferocious appearance, Barong Ket is a welcome sight in Bali, Indonesia.

Throughout history, many cultures have told of mythic creatures of enormous size. The cyclopes are some of the most f...

Ninety-three million miles from Earth, a giant ball of hot gas brightens the sky. Nuclear reactions in the Sun's core...

A solar system is made up of a star and everything that travels around it. Solar means "of the sun.

These rocks provide the most clues about the history of life on Earth.

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Put on these handmade masks or puppets and tell your own mythic tale.

In the wild, ruffed lemurs live in only one place -- the eastern rain forests of Madagascar.

The gremlin-like, endangered aye-aye makes its home in the tropical forests of Madagascar, a large island off the coa...

Compared to the continent of Africa, Madagascar may seem small. But this island, the fourth largest in the world, is...

Sandstone is made of tiny pieces of sand you can see and feel. You can actually scratch away grains of sand from a pi...

Limestone is made up of fossils. After small marine animals die, their shells and skeletons build up on the ocean floor.

The mythic bird-creature Garuda is often shown attacking Nagas, snakelike creatures with human heads.

In Japan, a frightening water creature called the kappa was long known for pulling children underwater and drowning t...

Did you ever see a "shooting star"? What you really saw was a meteor burning up in the Earth's atmosphere.

The Sun is speckled with markings called sunspots that look darker than the rest of its surface.

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Do fresh water and salt water mix? Find out in this experiment.

You could travel the globe, but there's only one place you'd find a ruffed lemur: Madagascar. It is an endemic specie...

Discover where starry-eyed Neil has followed his curiosity.

Discover the intriguing facts and artifacts that Chuck has unearthed.

Meet a scientist who studies Korean culture.

To try to piece together how organisms are related, scientists use cladistics.

Take a world-wide tour of biodiversity with three scientists.

This extinct bird weighed over 330 pounds and had heavy legs and tiny wings.

Visit a scientist's lab to see how he creates a magma chamber!

Explore how Eleanor is protecting the world's animals and plants.

What kind of person becomes an ichthyologist, a scientist who studies fish?

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Earthquakes are happening all the time. Find out what makes the earth shake.

Watch two stories from ancient Greece that are animated as if they are vase paintings come to life.

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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How do simple storms turn into swirling hurricanes?

Find out what causes volcanoes to erupt and how scientists study them.

Paleontologist Mark Norell answers questions about T. rex.