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AMNH

  1. @ryangeftmangold Thanks! So glad you're enjoying your visit
  2. Curious about the latest dinosaur extinction research? Watch our chat with Museum paleontologists: bit.ly/JrriWu
  3. This weekend is your last chance to experience Mystery at the Museum! Get your tix here: bit.ly/LMJ7V2
  4. We were also joined by @ScienceCenters (ASTC) and @nycschools Chancellor Dennis Walcott here in the Hayden Planetarium Space Theater
  5. Actor Will Smith joined local high school students here today to encourage science learning beyond the classroom twitter.com/AMNH/status/20…
  6. Join us for a once-in-a-lifetime chance to view the transit of Venus on June 5. We're streaming it live from Hawaii: bit.ly/Jr3xxC
  7. Our Science Bulletins team heads to Peru to film a short doc on protecting potato biodiversity: bit.ly/LEiodl
  8. Did you know? The crystal jellyfish has a voracious appetite - its mouth can expand to swallow prey half its size bit.ly/J7qmq5
  9. @raphaelperrino thank you!
  10. Get a close look at some of the extraordinary organisms that produce light in the free Creatures of Light app for iPad: bit.ly/LEh4av
  11. Watch @NASA Space Shuttle Enterprise's final flight to its new home in NYC. Astro Bulletin video: bit.ly/JmPKs0
  12. Researchers have reconfigured virus-tracking software SUPRAMAP to allow for wider use around the world: bit.ly/LzAjBX
  13. Did you know? Dinoflagellates sometimes crowd so thick they discolor the water, forming patches known as red tides.
  14. @rzyrzy Thanks!
  15. Watch @SimsJames 5-word acceptance speech for our #Webby Award! bit.ly/LyL8nY
  16. American Egret in the Sanford Hall of North American Birds #amnh @ American Museum of Natural History instagr.am/p/K8JTTwwBKq/
  17. This week's From the Archives photo: Museum staff at work on the Tiger Diorama, February 1934 bit.ly/JmaTT2
  18. @museumnerd Thanks! We post archival photos every Tuesday