Channel Title: American Museum of Natural History Channel Description: The American Museum of Natural History is one of the world's preeminent scientific and cultural institutions. Since its founding in 1869, the Museum has advanced its global mission to discover, interpret and disseminate information about human cultures, the natural world and the universe through a wide-ranging program of scientific research, education and exhibition. The Museum is renowned for its exhibitions and scientific collections, which serve as a field guide to the entire planet and present a panorama of the world's cultures. <video> New Trilobite Species Discovered In Drawer! #science #paleontology #TrilobiteTuesday Description: Happy Trilobite Tuesday! Sometimes, new species are hiding inside scientific collections! Museum Curator Melanie Hopkins didn’t need to travel far to find a new kind of trilobite. While working on an exhibit for the Museum’s Louis V. Gerstner, Jr. Collections Core, she discovered a paleontological puzzle that had stumped researchers for more than 150 years. The key was splitting one species of these ancient animals into two. The resulting “new” trilobite, Flexicalymene trentonensis, is described in a recent edition of American Museum Novitates. Find out more on the AMNH blog: https://www.amnh.org/explore/news-blogs/research-posts/new-trilobite-species </video> <video> Where do the colors in fall foliage come from? #autumn Description: Learn about the science behind fall foliage with Daniel Hooper, a postdoctoral fellow at the Museum. The next time you’re out leaf peeping or bird watching, give thought to carotenoids—the incredible pigments that make our worlds a little rosier. #didyouknow </video> <video> Let's clean the universe! Description: When the Hayden Planetarium opened in October 1935, it was only the fourth planetarium in the United States. Nearly a century later, the Museum is still bringing audiences the latest science about our cosmos. Watch how Museum staff keep the planet models clean! #cleaning </video> <video> How Genetic Changes Help and Hurt Us: The Human Variety Show Description: Ever wonder why some people are lactose intolerant and others aren’t? Or why some people have naturally thicker hair than others? Some traits, like walking upright and using tools, define us as humans and have become fixed in our DNA over millions of years. Other traits that aren’t shared by everyone are more recent results of genetic adaptations to the very different environments humans lived in. But it turns out that genetic variations that once helped us are now causing trouble for human health. #Genetics #HumanEvolution #Migration #Variation #HumanHealth #DNA #Mutation *** Subscribe to our channel: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=AMNHOrg Check out our full video catalog: http://www.youtube.com/user/AMNHorg This video and all media incorporated herein (including text, images, and audio) are the property of the American Museum of Natural History or its licensors, all rights reserved. The Museum has made this video available for your personal, educational use. You may not use this video, or any part of it, for commercial purposes, nor may you reproduce, distribute, publish, prepare derivative works from, or publicly display it without the prior written consent of the Museum. © American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY </video> <video> Plan Your Visit To Invisible Worlds Today! Description: Be transported into nature’s hidden realms—from the depths of the ocean to the DNA strands in all living organisms. Invisible Worlds is a new 360-degree immersive experience, debuting as part of the Richard Gilder Center for Science, Education, and Innovation at the American Museum of Natural history. Housed in a custom venue, Invisible Worlds is the latest presentation innovation, part of the Museum’s long tradition of transporting visitors across the world via its iconic habitat dioramas and throughout the universe in its science-visualization-driven Hayden Planetarium Space Shows. Just as the 180-degree planetarium dome creates the experience of looking up at the night sky, Invisible Worlds is designed to evoke the relationship humans have within nature—vast and ever-changing—in a wide, oval space with 23-foot-high walls and a mirrored ceiling that surrounds visitors with projections at all scales. At key moments, visitors are drawn into the story as their own movements affect the images around them. For more about the Gilder Center, visit http://amnh.org/gildercenter. © American Museum of Natural History, New York </video> <video> Repatriating Simon’s Outfit to the Tohono O’odham Nation Description: Tohono O’odham Cultural Affairs Specialist Samuel Fayuant describes the process of repatriating more than 120 cultural items to the Tohono O’odham Nation in southern Arizona from the American Museum of Natural History’s ethnographic collection. In 1911, explorer Carl Lumholtz sold hundreds of items he collected from the Tohono O’odham people to the American Museum of Natural History. In 2021, the Museum welcomed five Tohono O’odham Nation representatives to complete the repatriation of more than 120 of those items—including one particularly storied ceremonial outfit belonging to a man called Simon—from the Division of Anthropology’s ethnographic collection. Cultural Affairs Specialist Samuel Fayuant describes the process, which began with consultations in 2019, and shares information about the sacred Vikita ceremony where Simon’s outfit would have been worn and what it means to his community for these items to return home. #NAGPRA #Repatriation #TohonoOodham #Anthropology *** Subscribe to our channel: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=AMNHOrg Check out our full video catalog: http://www.youtube.com/user/AMNHorg This video and all media incorporated herein (including text, images, and audio) are the property of the American Museum of Natural History or its licensors, all rights reserved. The Museum has made this video available for your personal, educational use. You may not use this video, or any part of it, for commercial purposes, nor may you reproduce, distribute, publish, prepare derivative works from, or publicly display it without the prior written consent of the Museum. © American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY </video> <video> Meet Apex: the largest Stegosaurus ever discovered Description: Thought to be the largest and one of the most complete Stegosaurus specimens ever uncovered, Apex is now on view in the Museum’s Kenneth C. Griffin Exploration Atrium. The 150-milion-year-old fossil will not only be on exhibit but will be studied by researchers in the Museum’s Division of Paleontology under the direction of Macaulay Curator Roger Benson. </video> <video> Fossil dinosaur feather in amber #paleontology Description: What can we learn from a dinosaur feather preserved in amber? Let’s go behind the scenes of the Museum’s collection of amber fossils to find out! #dinosaur #amber #fossils </video> <video> How did the tiger shark get its name? Description: Like many other sharks and rays, tiger sharks (Galeocerdo cuvier) do not lay eggs but give birth to live young—up to 80 pups per litter! </video> <video> Lucy Was Discovered 50 Years Ago. What’s Changed from 1974 to Now? Description: It’s been 50 years since “Lucy,” a 3.2-million-year-old hominid, became one of the most famous fossils in the world. Her relatively complete skeleton (about 40 percent) gave scientists—and the public—an entirely new window into human evolution. Journey back to 1974 to understand why Lucy’s discovery was such big news, then jump forward to explore how cutting-edge technology has radically expanded the study of human evolution from then to now. Museum Curators Ashley Hammond, Rob DeSalle, and Ian Tattersall break down what we learned from Lucy (known as Dinknesh in Ethiopia) and other fossils of her species, Australopithecus afarensis. They explore the importance of casts—exact replicas of fossils, including the cast of Lucy on view in the Museum’s Anne and Bernard Spitzer Hall of Human Origins—and discuss how new technologies like micro-CT scanning, ancient DNA analysis, and proteomics have unlocked new possibilities for analyzing fossils. #LucyFossil #HumanEvolution #Australopithecusafarensis #Dinknesh *** Subscribe to our channel: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=AMNHOrg Check out our full video catalog: http://www.youtube.com/user/AMNHorg This video and all media incorporated herein (including text, images, and audio) are the property of the American Museum of Natural History or its licensors, all rights reserved. The Museum has made this video available for your personal, educational use. You may not use this video, or any part of it, for commercial purposes, nor may you reproduce, distribute, publish, prepare derivative works from, or publicly display it without the prior written consent of the Museum. © American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY </video> <video> How Do New Kinds of Telescopes Find New Things in Space? with Astrophysicist Michael Shara Description: How do we discover new types of objects in space? One way is to invent new kinds of telescopes. Join Museum Curator Michael Shara on an exploration of evolving telescope technologies, the most powerful telescopes ever built, and how the future of stargazing might already be in your pocket–as well as in the brand-new Condor Array Telescope. Along the way, learn about the “wild and crazy” things stars do through Shara’s research into novas (stellar explosions that often repeat over time) and supernovas (the explosive deaths of stars). #Telescope #CondorTelescope #Supernova #Nova #HowTelescopesWork #Hubble #JamesWebb Explore more science questions with Museum curators in our “Meet the Scientists” playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrfcruGtplwF-NyC34X2zVb3jQiLZFsXe *** Subscribe to our channel: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=AMNHOrg Check out our full video catalog: http://www.youtube.com/user/AMNHorg This video and all media incorporated herein (including text, images, and audio) are the property of the American Museum of Natural History or its licensors, all rights reserved. The Museum has made this video available for your personal, educational use. You may not use this video, or any part of it, for commercial purposes, nor may you reproduce, distribute, publish, prepare derivative works from, or publicly display it without the prior written consent of the Museum. © American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY </video> <video> T. rex, Triceratops, Titanosaur–What's the Difference? Description: What are the different types of dinosaurs found in the dinosaur family tree? What makes these ancient reptiles different from the lizards and snakes we see today? And what features do they share with the living dinosaurs—birds? #paleontology #dinosaur #evolution Sure, a Stegosaurus looks different from a T.rex, but how does a paleontologist figure out how to classify them? In this video, Macauley Curator Roger Benson from the Division of Paleontology at the American Museum of Natural History introduces the three major groups of dinosaurs—the ornithischians, the sauropodomorphs, and the theropods—and the differences between a dinosaur and a modern lizard. He also names a few ancient animals that aren’t dinosaurs at all–some of them may surprise you! </video> <video> Haudenosaunee: People of the Longhouse Description: “This is a profile of the Haudenosaunee, by the Haudenosaunee, speaking from the present,” says filmmaker Caleb G. Abrams (Seneca, Wolf Clan) about this film, which he produced in collaboration with the Museum in 2024. Abrams and his team spoke with citizens of the Haudenosaunee (ho-dee-no-SHOW-nee) Confederacy’s six nations—the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, Seneca, and Tuscarora—whose homelands include much of present-day New York State. This film explores vital parts of Haudenosaunee life today: the continuation of traditional government structures, the revitalization of languages after decades of repressive policies by the United States and Canada, the role of lacrosse as an expression of sovereignty on the world stage, and the sowing of seeds of knowledge and hope for future generations. Haudenosaunee: People of the Longhouse is supported by the Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Foundation. #Haudenosaunee #Lacrosse #nativeamerican Credits: Writer, Director, Producer Caleb Abrams (Seneca, Wolf Clan) Executive Producer Eugenia Levenson Director of Photography Tucker Kohnen Editor Lisa Rifkind Associate Producers Nathan Abrams (Seneca, Wolf Clan) Katsi’tsonni Fox (Mohawk, Bear Clan) Ruchatneet Printup (Tuscarora, Turtle Clan) Karen Taber Story Consultant Marissa Corwin Manitowabi (Seneca, Deer Clan) Drone Pilot Jaiden Mitchell (Mohawk, Bear Clan) Audio Recordists John V. Davis Benjamin Jura Graphics and Animation Lee Stevens Colorist and Sound Mixer Erin Chapman Additional Video Provided by: Haudenosaunee Nationals Lacrosse Music “Women’s Dance”, “Robin Dance”, “Smoke Dance”, and “Stick Dance” performed by Cold Spring Singers: Justin Cook (Seneca, Turtle Clan), Chandler Cooper (Onondaga, Heron Clan), and Alan Dowdy (Tuscarora, Turtle Clan) “Haudenosaunee” by Bear Fox (Mohawk, Wolf Clan) Special Thanks Bruce Abrams Iotsi’tsakéhte Abrams Reesa Abrams Renee Abrams Rorhen’s Abrams Kristiana Ferguson Hayden Haynes Barbara Lynn Hill Chad Hill, Sr. Ashley Isaac Nelson Jock Larry King Steevi King Andrew Lazore Jodi Lynn Maracle Yehwatsironnyons Maracle-Hill Onkwe Farms Scott Sackett Seneca-Iroquois National Museum Vince Schiffert Randee Spruce *** Subscribe to our channel: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=AMNHOrg Check out our full video catalog: http://www.youtube.com/user/AMNHorg This video and all media incorporated herein (including text, images, and audio) are the property of the American Museum of Natural History or its licensors, all rights reserved. The Museum has made this video available for your personal, educational use. You may not use this video, or any part of it, for commercial purposes, nor may you reproduce, distribute, publish, prepare derivative works from, or publicly display it without the prior written consent of the Museum. © American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY </video> <video> What is a fossil? Description: Maybe you’ve seen a fossil T. rex, or a fossil wooly mammoth. But what exactly IS a fossil? Can a fossil be a plant, or a footprint? Does a fossil have to be a dinosaur? #paleontology #fossils #dinosaur #prehistoric From golden amber to ancient DNA, the fossil record of Earth stretches back hundreds of millions of years (even billions, for the earliest organisms). In this video, Macauley curator Roger Benson explains how a fossil is different from a skeleton, and shows many of the types of fossils that have helped paleontologists to understand the history of life on our planet. *** Subscribe to our channel: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=AMNHOrg Check out our full video catalog: http://www.youtube.com/user/AMNHorg This video and all media incorporated herein (including text, images, and audio) are the property of the American Museum of Natural History or its licensors, all rights reserved. The Museum has made this video available for your personal, educational use. You may not use this video, or any part of it, for commercial purposes, nor may you reproduce, distribute, publish, prepare derivative works from, or publicly display it without the prior written consent of the Museum. © American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY </video> <video> Physics at the Scale of the Universe Description: How can astrophysicists make predictions about parts of the universe they’ve never observed? It’s because the same laws of physics we experience here on Earth apply to the tiniest and most enormous things in space too—from cosmic grains of dust to supermassive black holes. Join astrophysicist and Museum Curator Mordecai-Mark Mac Low on an exploration through the size scales of the universe. Learn how the same techniques used to model terrestrial weather are used to predict star formation, and how computer gamers have helped along the way. #Astrophysics #TheoreticalAstrophysics #Universe #BlackHoles #ComputerModels #americanmuseumofnaturalhistory Explore more science questions with Museum curators in our “Meet the Scientists” playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLrfcruGtplwF-NyC34X2zVb3jQiLZFsXe *** Subscribe to our channel: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=AMNHOrg Check out our full video catalog: http://www.youtube.com/user/AMNHorg This video and all media incorporated herein (including text, images, and audio) are the property of the American Museum of Natural History or its licensors, all rights reserved. The Museum has made this video available for your personal, educational use. You may not use this video, or any part of it, for commercial purposes, nor may you reproduce, distribute, publish, prepare derivative works from, or publicly display it without the prior written consent of the Museum. © American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY </video>

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