Natural History

One of the most dazzling dioramas at the American Museum of Natural History is also one of the oldest.

This magnificent herd of stampeding elephants has been frozen in time for over a century.

This morbid scene depicts the Darwinian drama of death on the African savannah.

A fascinating and enormous collection of natural history exhibits stained by a dark colonial legacy.

This exhibit is one of the largest and most well-preserved collections of Jurassic-era trackways in the United States.

This impressive scene portrays the elusive forest giraffe of Central Africa.

This taxidermy scene brings the struggle for survival in the Indian jungle to a quiet corner of a Manhattan museum.

The mummies of a fake priest and bandit's wife are among the abundant curiosities at this museum.

This museum is known as the "Land of the Dinosaurs," but its full-scale dino models are just the start.

A charming little museum founded by the designer of the Statue of Liberty.

Here be dragons.

This pair of running lions engraved on animal bone is one of the earliest artistic depictions of big cats.

An astounding collection of taxidermy, fossils, skeletons, and even a few strange live beasts.

This Catskills museum preserves stumps from the earliest known fossil forest on Earth.

Get a close look at the gigantic remains of long-extinct mammoths.

The first partially complete dinosaur skeleton was discovered here, forever changing the world's view of the ruling reptiles.

The gigantic skull of a long-extinct species that once roamed the forests of England and Ireland.