Discover new research about dinosaurs’ colorful eggs

Plus, what happened to the mammoth and other megafauna? | [View in browser]( [Plan Your Visit]( [Tickets]( [Exhibitions]( [Our Research]( [Calendar]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Old New York diorama at the American Museum of Natural History. ]( VIDEO Behind the Updates to the Old New York Diorama Last month, the Museum added new interpretation to the Old New York diorama. Hear from visual historian Bradley Pecore, Curator Peter Whiteley, and Vice President for Exhibition Lauri Halderman about the importance of adding a modern cultural perspective to a 1939 scene. [Watch the video]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Colored bird eggs.]( NEW RESEARCH Dinosaurs Had Colored Eggs, New Study Shows A research team working with Macaulay Curator of Paleontology Mark Norell has found the first evidence of colored—and even patterned—eggs in dinosaurs using a non-destructive laser scanning technique. [Read the post]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Palorchestes azael ]( BLOG POST A Mystery About the Disappearance of Megafauna What happened to the world’s largest—and strangest—animals? Museum Curator Ross D. E. MacPhee’s new book, End of the Megafauna, tackles the puzzle.. [Read the post]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Megachilid bee. ]( BLOG POST Museum Scientists Help Urban Pollinators Stay Healthy Find out how Museum entomologists have been helping the High Line’s gardening team preserve existing nesting spots and create new ones for bees ahead of the winter nesting season. [Read the post]( --------------------------------------------------------------- SCICAFE Seeing the Milky Way Like Never Before At October’s SciCafe, Museum astrophysicist Jackie Faherty explained how the Gaia space telescope’s catalog of over 1.3 billion stellar distances is helping astronomers visualize and study the galaxy. [Watch the video]( [Listen to the podcast]( --------------------------------------------------------------- VIDEO Seven Million Years of Human Evolution Our closest living relative is the chimpanzee—but we have much closer relatives, hominins, who are no longer living. Find out what the fossil record tells us about the history of human evolution. [Watch the video]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Museum researchers working in the Vertebrate Paleontology lab.]( INSTAGRAM What it Takes to Be a Dino Detective Museum Postdoctoral Researcher Emanuel Tschopp and his team are reassembling fossil fragments collected in the 1930s at Wyoming’s Howe Quarry as the team hopes to find out what species lived there 150 million years ago. Get a peek behind the scenes in our Instagram story. [Follow us on Instagram]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [Zapotec funerary urn.]( BLOG POST Zapotec Urn Sheds Light on Ancient Culture A clay funerary urn from the Museum’s Collection offers clues to the ancient Zapotec people of Mexico’s Oaxaca Valley. [Read the post]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [An interactive exhibit on climate change in the Hall of Planet Earth. ]( SCIENCE FOR KIDS What You Can Do About Rising Carbon Dioxide Fossil fuels like oil and natural gas are used to power cars, heat homes, and provide electricity, but they also produce large amounts of carbon dioxide, which contributes to global temperature rise. Find out how alternate energy sources can be used to lower CO2 emissions, and then visit the Gottesman Hall of Planet Earth to learn more about climate change. [Explore]( --------------------------------------------------------------- [facebook]( [facebook]( [Unsubscribe]( | [Manage Subscriptions]( | [Privacy Policy]( You are receiving this email because you are subscribed to This Month at the Museum. American Museum of Natural HistoryCentral Park West at 79th Street New York, NY 10024-5192 Phone: 212-769-5100