The Climate Wall, a dynamic digital exhibit in the David S. and Ruth L. Gottesman Hall of Planet Earth, will be updated in September with a visualization sequence about El Niño. Alvaro Keding/ © AMNH This September, the American Museum of Natural History will launch a slate of programs and installations inContinue Reading
Left: Gothic Sacrament House, Prague, Master Wenceslas, c. 1375. Iron, gilded. Prague, Saint Vitus Cathedral, Saint Wenceslas Chapel. Right: Spice Container, Germany, c. 1550. Silver: traced, pierced, cast, and parcel-gilt. The Jewish Museum, New York. Photo by Kris Graves JEWISH AND CHRISTIAN SACRED ART FROM MEDIEVAL THROUGH EARLY MODERN TIMES PRESENTED INContinue Reading
Hosted by Hugh Jackman, Featuring Rachel Brosnahan and Gayle King, Taking Place on September 26, 2026 in Central Park Global Citizen, the world’s largest movement to end extreme poverty, announced the lineup for the 2026 Global Citizen Festival will include Ms. Lauryn Hill & Wyclef Jean celebrating the 30th anniversary of Fugees’ seminal album ‘The Score,’ LennyContinue Reading
TEAHUPOʻO, TAHITI, FRENCH POLYNESIA – AUGUST 13: Seth Moniz of Hawaii and Erin Brooks of Canada after winning the Outerknown Tahiti Pro on August 13, 2026 at Teahupoʻo, Tahiti, French Polynesia. (Photo by Hannah Anderson/World Surf League) Erin Brooks (CAN) and Seth Moniz (HAW) won the Outerknown Tahiti Pro Presented by I-SEA, Stop No. 7Continue Reading
A fossil of Microraptor, one of the smallest known dinosaurs. Mick Ellison/© AMNH Dinosaurs are famous for being big, from the towering Tyrannosaurus rex to the colossal Apatosaurus. But a new study published in the journal Evolution by scientists at the American Museum of Natural History and Princeton University suggests that one of the greatest mysteriesContinue Reading
Tamirkhan balcarceli (skull and partial hindlimb). Nicole Wong/© AMNH A remarkably preserved fossil from Mongolia’s Gobi Desert is reshaping scientists’ understanding of mammal evolution during the age of dinosaurs. The new species, described in the journal Nature by a team of scientists from the American Museum of Natural History, Stony Brook University, UniversityContinue Reading
Fossils of Spriggina floundersi collected in South Australia preserve mirror-image impressions of the original animals, so a leftward bend in the rock represents an animal that bent to the right in life. Scott Evans/© AMNH Scientists have uncovered what may be the earliest evidence of “right-handedness” in the animal kingdom, dating backContinue Reading
Eggs from the Museum’s Ornithology Collection of an elephant bird (back), an ostrich (front right), and a hummingbird (front left, in box) show the range of sizes of bird eggs. Elephant birds (Aepyornis maximus), thought to have gone extinct about 1,000 years ago in Madagascar, could grow more than 9Continue Reading
SAQUAREMA, RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – JUNE 26: (L-R) WSL Champion Yago Dora of Brazil and Sawyer Lindblad of the United States after winning the VIVO Rio Pro on June 26, 2026 at Saquarema, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. (Photo by Thiago Diz/World Surf League) Today, Sawyer Lindblad (USA) and Yago Dora (BRA) claimed winsContinue Reading
Photo by Liz Ligon Stargazers on the High Line are invited to a special, “once in a quarter moon” opportunity to learn about the wonders of the night skies directly from experts from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope team, as part of the High Line’s weekly partnership with the AmateurContinue Reading