Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County

Recent papers from Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County

1. Cultivation of halophilic archaea in shallow subsurface Martian conditions has implications for extant life on MarsApplied and Environmental Microbiology · 2026
2. DNA barcoding of more than one million insect specimens indicates that at least one third of California's insect biodiversity remains undiscoveredEcography · 2026
3. Historic diversity of pelagic copepods across the Arabian GulfDiscover Oceans · 2026
4. Coordinated transformations of the labyrinth and occiput during the dinosaur–bird transitionProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2026
5. Repeated marine-to-freshwater fish transitions reveal paleoenvironmental modulation of adaptive radiationProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2026
6. Monophyly revisited: Magelona vs. Maea (Annelida, Polychaeta, Magelonidae)ZooKeys · 2026
7. The taste for the beautiful: influence of diet on the evolution of plumage in tanagersEvolution · 2026
8. Habitat Complexity and Seasonal Variation Factors Shape the Polychaete Assemblies Associated with the Holdfast of Lessonia berteroanaHydrobiology · 2026
9. The body temperature of Tyrannosaurus rexScience Advances · 2026
10. Selection, constraints, and contingency drive mosaic patterns of evolution during the carangarian adaptive radiationScience Advances · 2026
11. Everything, everywhere, all at once? Trends in Diplodocoidea diversity during the Jurassic/Cretaceous transitionFossil record · 2026
12. Vegetation, climate, and age of the mid-Miocene Mascall flora reinvestigated: leeward environments of the Cascade MountainsJournal of Paleontology · 2026
13. Genome Evolution in Social InsectsGenome Biology and Evolution · 2026
14. From chemistry to cognition: the adaptive origins of consciousness under constraintFrontiers in Neuroscience · 2026
15. What a Long Strange Trip It's Been: Miocene Salinian Block Migration and the Biogeography of Megahexura SpidersJournal of Biogeography · 2026
16. Key practices for ethical research during scientific expeditionsConservation Science and Practice · 2026
17. Forest canopy decline under elevated CO ₂ during the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal MaximumScience · 2026
18. Leveraging urban greenspaces to bolster regional conservation prioritiesConservation Science and Practice · 2026
19. Sexual and ecological drivers of plumage conspicuousness in hummingbirdsEvolution · 2026
20. A new extinct Pleistocene species of spadefoot toad and comments on the paleoecology and paleobiogeography of anurans from Rancho La Brea, CaliforniaJournal of Vertebrate Paleontology · 2026