Explore how Eleanor is protecting the world’s animals and plants.
Holding it in his hand as if it were an ice cream cone
In 2005, scientists discovered a tiny bat in the Andes Mountains of Ecuador. This bat, Anoura fistulata, has the longest tongue relative to body length of all the mammals.
Claws on five fingers of each hand–a primitive mammal
Countless impacts continue to shape Earth, other planets and moons in our dynamic Solar System.
Larger craters, on the other hand, usually contained
Humans, like all species, are a product of evolution. Help students understand the evolutionary story of our taxonomic family.
Extinct Primates Living Primates The Grasping Hand
See incredible macro photographs of vulnerable or extinct insects from the Museum’s collection by Levon Biss.
Extinct Primates Living Primates The Grasping Hand
Discover the Gottesman Research Library has a conservation laboratory where the latest preservation technology is used to protect its unique collections.
a cast iron board shear, as well as equipment for hand
Jim Webster leans over a worktable coated with pliers, wires, and scraps of material, plucking a small, sealed capsule of white gold-palladium alloy out of the ordered chaos. Inside the capsul…
into a small cylindrical furnace, easily held in one hand
Activities and resources to help students understand everything from basic dinosaur biology and evolution, to the tools and methods of modern paleontology. Lesson plans for grades K-12.
Educator Materials Sedimentary Layers Puzzle Try your hand
As a child, Amundsen dreamed of exploring the North Pole. Yet it is his discovery of the South Pole for which he is best known. Read Amundsen’s exciting account of his groundbreaking expedition.
We simply took off a mitt, and laid the warm hand on
This summer, Georgina Cullman from the Museum’s Center for Biodiversity and Conservation worked in the Solomon Islands on a project that looks at food security, nutrition, and how local communities…
On the one hand, a large percentage of adults are overweight
