Assistant Professor Cindy Looy and grad student Dori Contreras visit the National Museum of Natural History in our nation’s capitol for different reasons.

Documents found with the extensive US Geological Survey Menlo Park Invertebrate Collection add value to the specimens.

See how the Looy Lab is using Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory’s synchrotron to look at fossils inside rocks.

Lisa White brings evolutionary science to an Oakland, California, middle school as part of the 2013 Darwin Day Roadshow.

Read a San Francisco Chronicle story about a rare, beautiful, and so far unnamed species of octopus studied by Roy Caldwell and colleagues.

The University of California Press has just published Bone Histology of Fossil Tetrapods: Advancing methods, analysis, and interpretation.

Photos and field notes enrich the story of the discovery of adult, juvenile, and baby Triceratops skulls.

Watch the California Academy of Sciences’ new video that uses UCMP’s How Science Works flowchart to map the discovery of a new spider family.