What in the world? The purple frog (Nasikabatrachus sahyadrensis), also known as the pig-nosed frog, might be spotted along India’s Western Ghats mountains. This unusual looking amphibian spends most of its time burrowed underground, typically near a stream or a pond. It uses its sensitive snout to sniff out snacks, like termites, and then scoops ( Read more... )

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Welcome back to Trilobite Tuesday! Holmia, a rare Lower Cambrian trilobite, is named after the Latin word for Stockholm, Sweden-the city near which these 520 million year old trilobites are found. This specimen is 2 in (5.1 cm) in length.

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Have you ever spotted a fairy lantern? Members of the genus Thismia, these plants don’t use chlorophyll to photosynthesize. Instead, they feed on fungi in the soil. Growing just a few centimeters tall, their unusual-looking, vibrant flowers bloom briefly to attract pollinating insects-like fungus gnats. There are more than a hundred known species ( Read more... )

Research alert! Two new studies out this week find that rock and dust samples retrieved by NASA from the asteroid Bennu in 2023 contain some of the building blocks for life on our planet. What’s more? There’s evidence of underground pools of saltwater that might have served as the “broth” for these compounds to interact and combine.

The studies, ( Read more... )

Explore nature’s hidden realms, and discover how all life on Earth is connected in the Museum’s immersive experience Invisible Worlds. Plan your visit!

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This research, recently published in the journal Nature Geoscience, suggests that studying volcanic ash during eruptions could be used as a tool to forecast tremor intensity.

Continuing work by the research team, which now includes students from the Museum’s Master of Arts in Teaching Earth Science Residency Program, aims to better understand this ( Read more... )

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Just in time for the Year of the Snake, Museum herpetologists share some of their favorite serpent facts! Learn about back-up fangs, special scales, snake eyesight, and more, and get a behind-the-scenes peek at specimens from the Museum’s research collection.

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Did you know? Humans are closer to T. rex in the geological timeline than T. rex was to Stegosaurus.

What kind of dinosaur is Stegosaurus? And what were its plates used for? Learn more about Stegosaurus and its fellow stegosaurs with Museum paleontologist Roger Benson! Explore what we’ve learned from fossils like the recently discovered Apex-the ( Read more... )