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How the Old Masters painted animals: dragonfly wings and butterfly dust
A first-ever collaboration between the National Gallery of Art and the Smithsonian examines the birth of natural history.
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Jewels sparkle like stars in Van Cleef and Arpels' 'Cosmic Splendor' at NYC's American Museum of Natural History
At the American Museum of Natural History here in New York, I had the pleasure of experiencing both at the same time.
San Diego Natural History Museum’s long-awaited Paleo Center opens Friday
The basement floor archive and laboratories now house 1.5 million specimens of ancient life in San Diego County ...
Why Dippy the dinosaur remains beloved, 120 years after arriving at the Natural History Museum
Dippy – a complete cast of a diplodocus skeleton – is Britain’s most famous dinosaur. It has resided at the Natural History ...
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Animals—Living and Dead—Can Help Track Humanity’s Toxic Legacy
Pollution Time Machine: It’s not just living animals that carry remnants of humanity’s toxic footprint. Samples of bird ...
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Which animal has the best sense of smell?
Still, researchers have found some intriguing clues as to which species might be the best smeller. One place to look is the ...
Ancient three-eyed predator was ‘unlike any living animal’
Paleontologists have discovered fossils of a 506 million-year-old tiny three-eyed predator nicknamed the “sea moth,” according to a new study.
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To Recreate a 17th-Century Masterwork, an Entomologist at the National Museum of Natural History Got Creative with Butterflies, Bees and a Bit of Rosemary
Vast trade networks and expanding colonial empires brought animals and plants from ... National Gallery of Art and the National Museum of Natural History. It will open on May 18 and run through ...
Rings of time: Unearthing climate secrets from ancient trees
Deep in the swamps of the American Southeast stands a quiet giant: the bald cypress (Taxodium distichum). These majestic ...