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Welcome to Stories, a place to explore—and be inspired by—the wonder of our natural and cultural worlds.

“Live Forever” Dudleya pulverulenta, or chalk dudleya
Nature in L.A.
Drink in Your Summer Garden
The Museum's manager of horticulture, Daniel Feldman, identifies five plants—for your garden and ours—that thrive in summer. 
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L.A. Bats Under the Overpass
Counting the bats roosting along the L.A. River
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Dune sedge, strawberry, and juniper make good lawn alternatives
Get Off Your Lawn
Quit cutting grass and start cutting down your water usage with inspiration from our Nature Gardens
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Birding with students at San Pascual Elementary School
Nature in L.A.
Let's Go Birding!
Join a student-guided avian adventure
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L.A.’s OG Hawowshi
Amir Edward | The Original Hawowshi
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Ailurarctos reconstruction Mauricio Anton
Research and Collections
Eating bamboo? It's all in the wrist.
An ancient fossil reveals the earliest panda on an exclusively bamboo diet and the evolutionary history of panda's false thumbs
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An opaque white and transparent mineral with many spiky outgrowths.
Research and Collections
The Secret Power of Zeolite
Our Curator of Mineral Sciences, Aaron Celestian, talks about why this mineral blows his mind!
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Dakota in Dino Hall
Step Inside a Dinosaur Puppet!
Get a behind-the-scenes look at the new Dinosaur Encounters.
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