Bioscience collections: Northern Flickers
You can find Northern Flickers in New Mexico throughout the year in open habitats near trees. They are members of the woodpecker family but they mainly eat ants and beetles. In the West, the undersides of the wing and tail feathers are bright red (in the East, they are yellow).
Stunning new mountain top vista from NASA’s Opportunity rover after reaching summit of Cape Tribulation in January 2015 nearly eleven years after Martian touchdown. Panoramic scene shows...
All right! And props to our research curator Larry Crumpler who has been helping to plan Opportunity's Journey for almost 11 years!
On the 40th anniversary of the Altair 8800 microcomputer: 1975–2015. Though primitive by today’s standards, the Altair 8800 is widely credited with jump-starting the personal computer era.
An amazing story that helped start the personal computer revolution. Come see this great gadget in our Startup gallery!
Beautiful panorama taken by the Opportunity Rover on Mars as it reached its highest point ever. Higher resolution version to come! To read more, visit our Rover Field Reports from Mars page.
Bioscience Collections: Chrysalis
We had two live butterfly chrysalids as part of an exhibit about butterflies in 2013. One of the butterflies emerged – it was a beautiful two-tailed swallowtail.
Bioscience Collections: Herbarium Sheets
Botanical specimens are pressed flat and dried for our collections. The plants are pressed very carefully so that both sides of the leaves can be seen, and all of the important identifying features in the flowers.
Bioscience Collections: Pikas
Pikas are small mammals that live in rocky habitats at high altitudes. Although they look like rats or mice, they are most closely related to rabbits and hares – and they do not have a tail.
Bioscience Collections: Shells
Of all species of animal life on planet Earth, one of the most varying and diversified is the mollusk. Scientists now estimate that there around 160,000 different species of mollusks recorded. About 125,000 of these species still exist today; the remaining 35,000 being recorded in fossil record.
Museum of Natural History gets Tiny Giants 3D, Friends of Film teaches the art of interviewing, and KNME sneaks “Downton Abbey.”
Come check out some really little heroes in our Lockheed Martin DynaTheater!
Why Does Jupiter Have A Red Spot?
Get your mask ready! We're having a blowout New Year's Eve party with MORE SCIENCE THAN YOU CAN HANDLE. Cash bars, masks, blocked off street, and a LASER COUNTDOWN TO 2015! Sorry about the caps lock, we're too excited not to use it.
Bioscience Collections: Beetles
This is just one drawer of New Mexico beetles in the Bioscience Collection. The collection contains insects and other arthropods from 29 of New Mexico’s 33 counties. One of the volunteers in the Bioscience Collection has been working on this project for many years.
Join us for the Orion launch tomorrow morning and pick up some goodies!
http://nmnaturalhistory.org/orion-rocket-launch.html
New Mexico provides a stunning backdrop from the National Wilderness Conference this week! The BLM manages five Wilderness areas in New Mexico: Bisti/De-Na-Zin Wilderness, Cebolla Wilderness, Ojito Wilderness, Sabinoso Wilderness, and West Malpais Wilderness.
The 41,170-acre Bisti/De-Na-Zin Wilderness is a remote desolate area of steeply eroded badlands which offers some of the most unusual scenery found in the Four Corners region.
BLM’s Cebolla Wilderness, located within the El Malpais National Conservation Area, includes 61,600 acres of sandstone mesas, canyons and grassy valleys characterize the area.
An hour northwest of Albuquerque is the Ojito Wilderness, a high desert landscape of wide open spaces and exceptional beauty. This area of steep-sided mesas, remote box canyons, meandering arroyos, and austere badlands offers solitude, tranquility, and escape from the congestion of the city.
The 16,030-acre Sabinoso Wilderness is a remote area in the northeastern portion of New Mexico. The Wilderness includes a series of high, narrow mesas surrounded by cliff-lined canyons.
BLM’s West Malpais Wilderness, located within the El Malpais National Conservation Area, includes 39,540 acres. It encompasses grassland, pinon-juniper woodland, ponderosa pine parkland, and basalt lava fields.
Learn more about BLM New Mexico wilderness. And then check out the 57 Wilderness Study Areas managed by BLM New Mexico.
We love our beautiful home state!
Happy Thanksgiving everyone!
Kick off the holiday season at the Museum this weekend with a visit to the Museum’s Origami Holiday Tree, now on view in the Grand Gallery!
This year, look for your favorite characters from the Night at the Museum movies—many based on exhibits that can be found at the Museum—among the three’s 800-plus hand-folded paper models.
Look for Tyrannosaurus rex, Theodore Roosevelt, the capuchin monkey, and the Rapa Nui (Easter Island) Moai.
Hooray for holiday dino origami! Win win win!
Digging up dinosaurs with Chief Curator Spencer Lucas!
