Golden Orb Spider

Fragments of Spider Lore

Spiders in history

Theodore Roosevelt in Brazil

Animals of Central Brazil

Together with mention of the geographical work of the Roosevelt-Rondon South American expedition in exploring the “River of Doubt”

Blind children at American Museum of Natural History

The Blind in the American Museum

The Museum develops programs for the blind.

The Darwin Celebration

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Recent Stories

Even at an early evolutionary stage, bird-like dinosaurs occupied different niches in the same ecosystem,

Dung beetles use light from the MIlky Way to find their way

Recently identified subspecies ranges farther than first imagined: across Africa.

An archaeologist ponders the fate of Hoover Dam