In Los Angeles, our most heroic urban nature story is the journey of P-22, a male mountain lion who traveled across the city and two busy freeways to get to Griffith Park. P-22 was first observed in the park by our citizen science coordinator Miguel Ordenana. Miguel leads us through the exhibit and shows what … Read more
Dinosaur feathers and flight, with Luis Chiappe Birds are living dinosaurs, but there was a long evolutionary path from small dinosaurs into today’s birds. Dinosaur Institute Director Dr. Luis Chiappe tells us about how and when feathers and flight evolved, and even how we can tell from fossils the types of flight used by early … Read more
Extreme Mammals, with Xiaoming Wang, Emily Lindsey, and Miguel Ordeñana We tour the NHM’s special exhibit Extreme Mammals in this episode, and find out that extremism and extinction are linked across evolutionary time. Meet NHM scientists Dr. Xiaoming Wang, Dr. Emily Lindsey, and Miguel Ordeñana as they show off some exhibit highlights including the giant … Read more