In this interactive activity from the American Museum of Natural History, play "connect the dots" and discover the connections between the people, animals, and plants in three habitats of the Dzanga-Sangha rain forest in the Central African Republic.
Learn about the adventurous and educational travel programs of the American Museum of Natural History, which arranges explorations of the world in the company of museum scientists, educators and curators.
Online home of the American Museum of Natural History. Find out about the museum's latest events, exhibitions, and programs.
Explore the story and history of the ancient city of Petra.
This resource is an online companion of museum-mounted exhibition about Darwin and his revolutionary theory. It covers Darwin's upbringing, influences, and discoveries employing a rich mix of media: text, photographs, videos, sound files, primary source artifacts, and more.
Learn about three different marine ecosystems: coral reefs, the continental shelf, and the deep sea. Interactive game included, which will help players chart the interrelationships among organisms that live in each ecosystem.
This resource is a companion site of a retrospective exhibition held at the American Museum of Natural History in 2002-03, Einstein covers the life and scientific theories of this revolutionary scientist. Includes numerous primary source documents and images as well as wonderful explanations of each of his ideas about light, time, energy, and gravity.
Flip this interactive OLogy card to find questions and answers, fast facts, and other bite-size pieces of information to help you understand genetic modification.
Illustrated storybook description of how the influenza virus spreads from animals to humans.
Learn about metamorphic, igneous, and sedimentary rocks and see many examples of each type.
Take a submersible down to the seafloor. As you descend, passing through the ocean's sunlight, twilight, and midnight zones, you can observe how temperature, pressure, and light levels change. When your submersible reaches the seafloor, you can jump to an exploratory game that lets you collect specimens of the sea life found in and around a deep-sea vent.
This resource is a place for exploring, asking questions, finding information, meeting scientists, and learning about marine ecosystems.
Tour the museum's famed exhibition hall dedicated to ocean life at this online recreation. Find videos, maps, species specimens, and images that let you experience many of the museum's resources on ocean life right from your desktop.
Flip this interactive OLogy card to find questions and answers, fast facts, and other bite-size pieces of information to help you understand the nature-versus-nurture debate.
A 14-year-old boy found the fossils of a brand new species of dinosaur--the Bambiraptor. Find out the fun facts about what scientists have discovered about the Bambiraptor and how closely it was related to birds with this resource.
This resource is a place for learning all about the Earth--the Earth's layers, its history, rocks and minerals, and interesting Earth science facts and discoveries. Explore, ask questions, find information, and meet American Museum of Natural History scientists, who share their views on dozens of Earth-related topics.
The Gene Scene OLogy site is a place for learning all about genetics--DNA, cloning, nature versus nature, and interesting genetic science facts and discoveries. Explore, ask questions, find information, and meet American Museum of Natural History scientists, who share their views on dozens of genetics-related topics.
Watch this video [0:43] to meet a real marine biologist as well as some kids that are interested in marine biology and learn what an Ichthyologist does.
Illustrated and animated series of short articles answers the questions, what is gravity? and what does it do?
Learn about the diversity of species on Earth by exploring a cladogram, a graph-like tree of life that illustrates relatedness among species. Includes instructions for reading cladograms and a pie chart that summarizes the percentages of the world's living things that belong to select classifications.