All living things contain carbon, the sixth element on the Periodic Table. Make a mobile of this elemental element with scissors, wire, pipe cleaners, and clay.
Your desk, your hand, a tree out the window.
Geologist Ed Mathez answers this question.
On the one hand, we do not know exactly what will happen
A geologist answers this question, explaining a cycle of glacial and interglaical periods.
On the other hand, interglacial periods last only a
How are you like a chimpanzee? Or a Neanderthal? Find out in this detailed, interactive look at humans and their closest cousins.
Extinct Primates Living Primates The Grasping Hand
Last chance! Explore what color tells us about the natural world–and ourselves.
blow party horns in front of colorful streamers; a hand
During Digital Learning Week in January 2013, the Youth Initiatives team at the American Museum of Natural History brought together youth, Museum educators, and scientists for a series of programs to explore using digital tools to engage with Museum halls, collections, and research.
instance, if a group recorded the presence of a grasping hand
Discover how paleontologists use anatomy, geography, historical figures, and even celebrities to give dinosaurs their names.
paleontologist sits on a rock and sorts through fossils by hand
T. rex Skeleton Crew is an interactive, multiplayer virtual reality experience featured in the new exhibition T. rex: The Ultimate Predator for visitors ages 12 and up.
wearing a VR headset is shown with controllers in each hand
The number of trilobite body segments have stayed the same over 250 million years, despite shifting positions in the body.
large rock surface covered in small fossils, and a hand
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Others may have brought a hand-held lens through which
