Tag: Natural History Museum

  • How To Live On Earth Is the New Environmental Documentary We All Need to Watch

    How To Live On Earth Is the New Environmental Documentary We All Need to Watch

    In the largest pear-growing forest on the planet, somewhere in China, workers move through the trees carrying feather dusters. They are not cleaning anything. They are pollinating the blossoms by hand, dusting pollen across flower after flower, performing a task so vast and so painstaking that it almost defies belief. It is the kind of…

  • How a Simple Agate Became a Dinosaur Discovery

    How a Simple Agate Became a Dinosaur Discovery

    For more than a century, a delicate pink and white sphere sat quietly in the Mineralogy Collection of the Natural History Museum in London. It was admired for its beauty and symmetry and regarded as a fine example of agate. Generations of curators cataloged it, moved it, displayed it and stored it again without suspecting…