Discover how Earth’s climate system has changed drastically and what positive changes could help rebalance the planet.
TEXT: If warming exceeds 1.5°C, large swaths of the Amazon
Join an astronomer and a historian to learn how Freedom Seekers used the night sky to find their north.
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Scott Schaefer, Curator, Division of Vertebrate Zoology
fish diversity in poorly known regions, such as the Amazon
Throughout his political career, Roosevelt sustained an intense curiosity about the natural world. Within a few years of leaving the presidency, Roosevelt nearly died while charting an unmapped Bra…
to help map an uncharted river; discovers it’s an Amazon
TEXT: If warming exceeds 1.5°C, large swaths of the Amazon
Robert Carneiro, Curator Emeritus, Division of Anthropology
projects on three indigenous tribes inhabiting the Amazon
Explore the mysteries of human hair with a biological anthropologist in this program for teens (ages 13-19).
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Countless rivers and streams nourish the fertile valleys of Africa and Latin America. These waterways are a source of life. But they can also be a breeding ground for black flies that transmit river blindness.
who live in small, semi-permanent villages in the Amazon
This Late Paracas (circa 100 BC) spear-thrower is made of whalebone, and the thumb rest was carved from a sperm whale’s tooth. A drawing in the Early Hunters case in the first section of this hall…
Paracas Spear-Thrower Southern South America Amazon
The early peoples of South America may have hunted a giant ground sloth, Mylodon darwinii, that became extinct 10,000 years ago. Its skin and dung, displayed here, were a gift from President T…
Paracas Spear-Thrower Southern South America Amazon
