ALT A photo of the Museum’s iconic blue whale, suspended from the ceiling. It is posed as if diving down into the Museum.

ALT Side on shot of the blue whale model in the Museum. Its head is facing the right and its body takes up most of the frame. A blue hue is cast over the whale from the blue lighting above it.

ALT A photo of a blunthead slug snake curled up on a green leaf. The snake is brownish in color with disproportionately large eyes and a short, blunt face.

ALT A Forest Owlet perched on a tree branch. Its back is facing the viewer but its head is turned over its left shoulder and it's staring at the viewer. The owl has brown and creme-colored plumage and a boxy body shape; it has large round yellow eyes and a pointed, yellow, downward curving beak. Blue sky is in the background.

ALT Dr. Mae Jemison is in a spacecraft and appears to be suspended in the air mid-jump.

ALT "Life in plastic problematic" in pink font on a cardboard sign with a mermaid drawing. A crowd is blurred in the background

ALT A vibrant underwater scene with rocky reefs lining the sides and divings birds in the center diving for fish.

ALT Wide shot of the Grand Canyon. It's aglow in orange from the Sun. The valleys and clay-colored walls of the canyon are vast.

ALT A photo of a Roseate Spoonbill with its wings extended outward. It is pink in color, somewhat resembling a flamingo, but has a long spoon-shaped bill.

ALT A close up photo of a rhinoceros iguana. It is gray in color. The animal is covered in scales & has horns on its head.

ALT A black & white archival photo of a Caspian tiger. The animal is visible in profile. It has long shaggy fur on its underbelly and a noticeable ruff of fur around its face.

ALT A Violet-backed Starling perched on a branch facing the left. It has shiny violet plumage on its head and backside. Its chest and underside are white. Its bill is black and pointed at the tip. The bird has a body shape not unlike a crow.

ALT View of the Olympic Rain Forest diorama in the Museum. A deer is standing between two large, thick tree trunks, surrounded by green vegetation and tall trees in the background.

ALT A silhouette of a leafless tree and shrubbery against a bright orange and blue background. The sky is vibrantly lit up from the sunset with clouds painted an intense orange and yellow color against the blue sky.

ALT A pair of Monk Parakeets nestled in the center of their nest; they're surrounded by twigs. The birds have pale green plumage and orange beaks.

ALT Head on shot of a Puerto Rican Tody perched on a thin branch facing the left of the frame. It has bright green plumage, a small roundish body, a thin slightly elongated beak, and a red patch of plumage on its chin and neck.

ALT Close up shot of a Ruby-throated Hummingbird mid-flight in the center of the screen facing the right of the frame. It has pale plumage on its chest with a patch of ruby on its neck. It has a small body and its wings are spread open; it has as long black needle-like beak.

ALT An enlarged model of a female Suriname toad on display in the Museum's Hall of Reptiles and Amphibians. It has black skin and its back looks porous like a sponge. In the holes, you can see little froglets emerging..

ALT A photo of a granulate shellback crab held in a human hand. The crab is hair, with a flat face, "hairy" body, and small legs. It is in a mollusk shell.

ALT A photo of a kinkajou clinging to a tree. The animal is brownish in color with a long tail. It has a small snout, round black eyes, and rounded ears.

ALT Wide-shot of a herd of bison walking in short yellow grass in the Great Plains. They have brown fur and small upward-curving horns on each side of their heads. The light blue open sky fills the background.

ALT Close up head on shot of a bobbit worm peering through the surface of the ocean floor. It has a worm-like body; its beige, ribbed-textured underside is facing the viewer; short stubby legs line the sides of its body; its head has three antenna-like appendages at the tip with pincers around its mouth; the critter has iridescent skin and an array of colors re shimmering off of its body.

ALT Close up of a pygmy anteater clinging to a tree branch with its limbs and tails wrapped around the branch. Its laying horizontally toward the right of the frame. Its fur is an orangeish-tan color. The animal looks as if its sleeping because its eyes are closed.

ALT An Agami Heron flying toward the right of the frame. Tropical green foliage is in the background. The bird has a long, thin, snake-like neck. It has a mix of auburn, blackish-purple, and white plumage.

ALT Side shot of a Purple-crested Turaco standing on dirt. The bird is facing the right of the frame; the entire side of its body can be seen. It has a deep purple mohawk-like crest atop its head, green and blue plumage on its face, back, and tail; it has light orange on its chest. It has bare red skin around its eye and a thick black beak. Its legs and feet are also black.

ALT A Painted Bunting perched on a thin tree branch. Its backside is facing the viewer; the bird's head is turned toward the left of the frame. Its head is covered in bold blue plumage; it has a mix of yellow, red, and blue plumage on its wings and backside.

ALT A photo of a Shoebill Stork surrounded by tall grass. The bird is gray in color. It has a large bill and its eyes are intense and yellow.

ALT Close up head on shot of a pair of mandarinfish slightly facing the right of the frame. They have deep blue colors with orange and yellow-green patterning throughout their bodies. A coral reef is in the background.

ALT Profile shot of a Three-wattled Bellbird (Procnias tricarunculatus) on a tree branch facing the left of the frame. It has white plumage on the upper-half of its body and brown plumage on its lower-half. The bird's beak is open and looks as if it's making a call. It has black wattles hanging over the corners and at the tip of its bill.

ALT A model of a lion's mane jellyfish is suspended from the Museum's ceiling. It has a large pink umbrella with long tentacles trailing behind it.

ALT Two jackal food plants beside each other on sandy soil. They almost look like oval-shaped cantaloupes with vertical slits down the middle revealing their red inner-parts.

ALT Close up head on shot of a rainbow eucalyptus. There are streaks of yellow, orange, and pink on the bark. Green leaves and blue sky are in the background.

ALT View of a giant manta ray swimming above the viewer. The sun can be seen behind it as it shines through the water's surface. The animal has a wide diamond-shaped body; its "wings" span nearly the whole width of the frame. The overall photo has a blue underwater tint to it.

ALT Painting of the HMS Beagle at Tierra del Fuego. It's sailing in a calm body of water surrounded by mountains.

ALT A black and white archival photo of people guiding a piece of the Museum’s massive sequoia slice through a doorway at the Museum.

ALT A photo of a blue tree monitor lizard. The reptile is positioned on a rock and visible in profile. It is a vibrant blue in color with an extremely long tail.

ALT Close up of a streamside salamander resting on an orange leaf. It's facing the left of the frame. It has a long, smooth, snake-like body but with four short limbs.

ALT A photo of an astronaut on the Moon. The surface of the moon is grayish in color. The astronaut’s space suit is white.

ALT Close up shot of an Acorn Woodpecker clinging to the side of a tree. It's facing the left of the frame but appears to be looking toward the viewer; it has black plumage on its backside and white plumage on its belly and on the front of its face; it has a patch of red on top of its head; its beak is black and pointed. The tree trunk that it's clinging to has a bunch of holes on its surface from the woodepecker.

ALT Head on shot of a Pygmy Falcon perched on a tree branch. It's facing the left of the frame with its head slightly turned toward the viewer. It has fluffy-looking plumage; its chest and face have white plumage while its wings and backside are a mix of brown and gray plumage. Its small downward-curving beak is open. Its legs are a red-orange color.

ALT Head-on shot of a Harpy Eagle perched on a branch facing the viewer. The raptor has white plumage on its belly and underside and dark gray plumage on its wings, chest, and backside. It has a sharp dark gray bill with lighter gray plumage on its face and a crest of feathers sticking up in the middle of the back of its head. Its feet are covered in yellow skin and its legs has white plumage with black-barred patterning. It has sharp talons.

ALT A photo of a glass squid against a dark background. The squid is mostly transparent. It has a bulbous, nearly round body and short front tentacles.

ALT Image of Uranus; it's a pale blue sphere on the black background of space.

ALT T. rex model with flesh and big teeth

ALT T. rex fossil

ALT An ʻIʻiwi in the center of the frame, perched atop green foliage. It's facing the right. It has red plumage on its body and head; its beak is thin and has a downward hook shape; its beak is red; its wings are black.

ALT Head-on shot of a Galápagos marine iguana. Only the upper-half of its body is visible as it props itself over a gray boulder. The animal has scaly skin that's a range of pink, gray, light green, and white. Its claw is visible as it holds onto the rock. Bright aqua-colored water is in the background.

ALT Close up of a happy-faced spider on a green lead. The spider is a translucent yellow color; the patter on its back looks like a smiley face.

ALT A photo of a coulter pinecone next to a human hand. The pinecone is larger by far, and dark brown in color.

ALT Head on shot of a Spangled Cotinga sitting atop a tree branch. It has vibrant turquoise plumage all over its body; it has a bright patch of lavender on its neck. The bird's body is facing the viewer, but its head is turned toward the left.

ALT A Rosy-ringed Parakeet perched on a thin tree branch. Its back is facing the viewer but its head is turned around as the bird looks back toward the left of the frame. It has bright green plumage; it has a peach-colored ring of plumage around its neck and eyes; it has a brigh red orange bill that hooks downward.

ALT A photo of a blue carpenter bee in profile.It has a fuzzy blue upper body and much darker legs and wings.

ALT Side view of a Proganochelys quenstedti's fossil skeleton. Its head is facing the right while its tail is facing the left. It's reminiscent of a modern-day small to medium-sized turtle.

ALT Head on shot of a Golden Pheasant's walking on short green grass toward the right of the frame. It has bright golden plumage on its head and neck with red plumage on its underside and purple and yellow plumage on its backside.

ALT Close up of a Brookesia micra standing on the head of a match. It has brown skin and its body is about the size of the head of the match that it's standing on. The background is orange.

ALT A photo of the Museum’s mummified hadrosaur. The animal is laying on its side, with its limbs in the air. It is brownish in color.

ALT Head on shot of a crocodile skull on a black background.

ALT Close up of a blue Christmas tree worm in the center of a beige of coral reef. It is the shape of a tree.

ALT Close up of a Marañón poison frog sitting at the tip of a red bromeliad petal. The frog has a small body with dark brown skin and white spots. It has large round eyes, comparative to its body, and is looking toward the left of the frame.

ALT Head on shot of a green tree frog sitting on a black surface; it's facing the viewer. It has light green skin on its backside and pale skin on its underside. It has round brown and black eyes; it's starting directly at the viewer.

ALT A photo of an Orange-bellied Parrot. It has a green back, yellowish belly, orange markings on its lower body, and blue ones near its eye and wings.

ALT A tall Grandidier's baobab tree soaring in the daylight. From afar, their bark looks smooth and the tree tops are a flat, oval-like shape. The Sun is bright in the blue sky in the background.

ALT A photo of a fossilized trilobite. It resembles a horseshoe crab, with a multi-segmented body. It is covered with bumps which are epibionts.

ALT Close up head on shot of a sea lamprey. The fish has a tube shaped body and its mouth is wide open revealing rings of sharp teeth encircling the inside of its mouth.

ALT A photo of a man standing beside the fossilized skeletons of two gigantic hadrosaurs. One is standing on all fours while the other is posed upright on its hind legs.

ALT Profile shot of Jane Goodall on a gray background. She is on the right side of the frame and is looking toward the upper-right corner. She is wearing a floral-patterned jacket; she has medium-length white hair that's in a pony tail.

ALT Standing 15-foot Lestodon fossil skeleton in the Museum's hall. It's a beige color and looks as if it is standing, and reaching for something in a tree top with its claws.

ALT Two red-necked pademelons foraging in green grass; green shrubs are in the background. One is facing and staring at the viewer while the other is bent over sniffing the ground. They look somewhat like miniature kangaroos. They have brown fur, long tails, round ears, and long legs compared to their arms.

ALT A photo of a group of meerkats. The animals are tannish in color with banding toward their lower ends. They are standing on their hind legs.

ALT Head on shot of a Pink Robin perched on a thin tree branch. Its head is turned toward the right of the frame. It has fluffy bright pink plumage on its chest and dark brown plumage on its wings, head, and backside. It has a thin black beak.

ALT A yeti crab on a black background. The crab is facing the right of the frame. Its body shape is similar to a lobster, with long arms with claws at the tip; it has a creamy-white color and its appendages are covered in a bristle-like "fur".

ALT Head on shot of a wood frog floating on the water's surface with its limbs sprawled out on the sides of tis body. Its skin has a pattern of various shades of brown; its hind limbs are noticeably larger than its forelimbs. The frog is staring directly at the viewer.

ALT An adult thorn bug resting on a green stalk. It's positioned in the left of the frame and it's facing the right. The right half of the stalk is covered in baby thorn bugs. The thorn bugs are a mix of turquoise and orange. The adult has a thick oval-like body with a thorn-like protrusion on its back.

ALT Head on shot of an Australian King Parrot perched on a branch. Its body is facing the left of the frame. It has deep red plumage on its head, neck, and underside. Green plumage covers its wings and tail. It has a dark orange beak.

ALT On the right, a tall long-necked sauropod dinosaur is reared up on its hind limbs. Across from it on the left is a small raptor-like dinosaur with sharp teeth and pointed claws. The ceiling is high and the sunlight is coming in through the windows.

ALT Close up shot of an Arctic fox laying in the snow facing the viewer. Its fur is just as white as the snow on the ground. It has hazel eyes and a black nose.