🦋 Wonder has officially taken flight at #NHMLA!
Have you saved your spot for this season’s #ButterflyPavilion? Don’t miss your chance to walk among hundreds of butterflies and colorful native plants, now on view through August 23: nhm.org/butterflies
And as always, Members see it for free!
Join me learn about UCEs and Phylogenomics in this workshop to be held at CIBNOR in the beautiful La Paz, Mexico, hybrid format and of course instructed En Español!!!
Info:
www.cibnor.gob.mx/posqrados/po...
A sebecid and its prey, a megalocnid ground sloth, overlook a coastal pond in the Dominican Republic around 5.8 million years ago. Artwork by Machuky Paleoart.
NEWLY PUBLISHED » Dr. Jorge Velez-Juarbe (Associate Curator, Marine Mammals) discovers that sebicids, ancient land-dwelling crocodile-like beasts, reigned over the West Indies as apex predators after vanishing from South America: bit.ly/AncientCrocs
Spider Biology Field Course!! from July 1 - 9, 2025 experience the outstanding biodiversity of spiders and non-spider arachnids found in montane southeastern AZ; taught by Greta Binford, Paula Cushing, & Marshal Hedin
$946 for tuition, room & board. See www.amnh.org/research/sou... for details.
Quote post with a picture you took in a National Park.
Joshua Tree National Park, California, USA.
SoCal folks! @mhedin.bsky.social and I are teaching another macrophotography workshop in Anza-Borrego. We had a great time in December, and this one on March 15th should be even better, because photo subjects will definitely be more plentiful than they were in December. Hope you can join us! 📷🐙🌿
A phylogenomic analysis in the spider family Cybaeidae found one new genus and two new species.
Learn more here: doi.org/10.3897/zook...
#endemicspecies #taxonomy #phylogenomics mhedin.bsky.social
2 more open faculty positions (1 TT Asst., 1 TT Assoc./Full) - in Border Studies @sandiegostate.bsky.social, potentially in biology - e.g. cross-border land, resource management, binational biodiversity, transborder ecologies, built environments, sustainable ag, etc.! Links below. Please share!
Very interesting paper!
I don't consider myself a fan of leps, but can't deny the beauty of these Birdwing! @nhmla.bsky.social
Going through some of the material in the collection I found this package of entomological pins from Western Germany! It's amazing the historic objects, aside from the specimens itself, that can be found in collections. I wonder about the actual year those pins were made...
A specimen tagged which identifies the specimen as a holotype, including information about the publication describing the new species, its genus and species, and sex.
Dr. Allison Shultz in the Ornithology Collection. Behind her are rows and rows of compact shelving full of bird specimens. In front of her is the single tiny shelf with all of the Museum's bird type specimens.
The holotype for the newly described Andean storm-petrel.
Dr. Allison Shultz, Associate Curator of NHMLA's bird collection, shares a glimpse into the museum's "type cabinet"—spotlighting the newest addition: the Andean storm-petrel, 𝘖𝘤𝘦𝘢𝘯𝘪𝘵𝘦𝘴 𝘣𝘢𝘳𝘳𝘰𝘴𝘪.
Learn more about this new species of bird and other specimens in the collection: nhm.org/stories
An UNLAB cohort is all smiles holding a wildlife find in the palm of two hands.
#NHMLAC is currently accepting applications for the next cohort of #UNLAB postbaccalaureate researchers! Apply to spend a year working with a curator on a biodiversity research project in L.A.—view program details, eligibility requirements, and more: nhm.org/how-apply-un...
Practicing some manual stacking at night with this Cophura Robber Fly from Kelso Dunes!