Tree frogs, like this red-eyed tree frog (Agalychnis callidryas), have sucker-like adhesive disks on the tips of the fingers and toes, which help them climb. Tree frogs, like this red-eyed tree frog (Agalychnis callidryas), have sucker-like adhesive disks on the tips of the fingers and toes, which help them climb.

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Amazing Butterflies

Explore the life cycle of some of the world's most beautiful creatures this summer in the giant maze and butterfly house at Amazing Butterflies, the new family exhibition at the Museum.

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Life...

Explore how creatures large and small can adapt and survive in the planet's most extreme environments.

Adaptable animals

Dinosaurs

Discover how dinosaurs lived, what they ate, and whether they really died out 65 million years ago.

Prehistoric monsters

Naturecams

See the Museum's smallest employees, bees, ants and beetles, hard at work on our webcams

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I want to be an 'ologist

Want to find out how to become a scientist? Some of the Museum's top experts tell you how.

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