A 760-year-old western red cedar reveals centuries of history and Indigenous culture! Discover how museum experts prepared this monumental tree cookie for display at its special exhibition, The Man Who Planted Trees: An Immersive Tale.| Canadian Museum of Nature
Ever heard of a mineral that filters nuclear waste and freshens up your cat’s litter box? Step into the world of zeolites with James Shipley, a geology student bringing the Canadian Museum of Nature’s mineral collection to digital life.| Canadian Museum of Nature
Did you know the biggest known Tyrannosaurus rex fossil was found in Canada? Museum dinosaur palaeontologist Jordan Mallon, Ph.D., talks about this apex predator.| Canadian Museum of Nature
Go behind the scenes as Rachel Lowenberg, student Collections Assistant, helps digitize the Brunel Collection, featuring more than 60,000 marine invertebrates from the Estuary and Gulf of St. Lawrence. Discover how art, science and data come together to bring these sea creatures to the world.| Canadian Museum of Nature
There’s a lot of life under the ice! Find out how Ruth Bryce is digitizing thousands of photos of Arctic and Antarctic marine life, taken by renowned explorer and museum scientist Kathy Conlan.| Canadian Museum of Nature
An event of historical significance when the museum accommodated the parliament and ensured seamless continuity of the Canadian government’s daily business.| Canadian Museum of Nature
Jane Darcovich and Sandrine Prasil explain how Braddish Billings Jr. preferred being in nature and how his botanical specimens, now found in the National Herbarium of Canada, became his legacy.| Canadian Museum of Nature
What if old photo negatives could help shape the future of science? Dive into the story of a young researcher who’s bringing nearly a century of Arctic exploration into the digital age – one scan at a time.| Canadian Museum of Nature
Find out more about our research team's discovery in the forest of the Canadian Museum of Nature: Xenodusa cava, a beetle species that lives in association with ants!| Canadian Museum of Nature
What do the northern tundra of Nunavut, the Arctic waters near Cambridge Bay, a lake bottom in Yellowstone National Park and the fields of Charlevoix have in common? They were just some of the remarkable spots where the museum’s botany team collected new specimens of algae, moss, lichens and vascular…| Canadian Museum of Nature
Video: Canadian Museum of Nature botanist Paul Sokoloff presents his 2023 fieldwork in Iqalugaarjuup Nunanga Territorial Park, Nunavut.| Canadian Museum of Nature
Think you know Triceratops? Recent research shows that this iconic dinosaur didn’t just evolve—it transformed in a rare, straight-line fashion called anagenesis. And one of the Canadian Museum of Nature’s lead dinosaur researchers, Jordan Mallon, plays an important role in that story.| Canadian Museum of Nature
More than 500 specimens of map lichen (Rhizocarpon geographicum) are being digitized at the Canadian Museum of Nature! Student Natalie Testart uncovered the surprising size and variety of this collection – and helped make it accessible to researchers worldwide.| Canadian Museum of Nature
A hidden treasure revealed—nearly 9,000 nature and conservation books, many over a century old, are being inventoried at the museum’s Rare Book Collection. Discover how student Lauren Lok Man Wong helped catalogue these fragile materials, making them accessible to researchers worldwide.| Canadian Museum of Nature
Freshwater mussels rely on fish to complete their life cycle, attaching to their gills as larvae before maturing into juveniles. But invasive fish species may be disrupting this process. Scientists are studying how the population of non-native Largemouth Bass are affecting mussel reproduction in Lac Kingsmere, a small private lake…| Canadian Museum of Nature
Video: Travel to rugged terrain in the Rocky Mountains with museum mineralogists as they collect rocks in the Ice River Alkaline Complex.| Canadian Museum of Nature
Bucky, the museum’s beloved giant beaver replica, spent many years travelling the country or in storage. He briefly returned to the museum’s Mammal Gallery in Ottawa for a limited engagement, to charm visitors during Winterlude and the 50th anniversary of the beaver as Canada’s national mammal. Find out how Alan…| Canadian Museum of Nature
Embark on a journey through time with two curious students at the museum’s National Herbarium of Canada. Tracing botanist John Macoun’s footsteps from 1901, they explore transformed landscapes to rediscover the Arctic butterbur (Petasites frigidus). Did they find it? Uncover their adventure blending science, history and a dash of mystery!| Canadian Museum of Nature
The Canadian Museum of Nature is one of 80 institutions worldwide digitizing their biodiversity literature and making it freely available as part of the Biodiversity Heritage Library. Already, the museum has contributed more than 600 books and 65,000 pages to this global biodiversity community. Find out how we do this…| Canadian Museum of Nature
Video: Canadian Museum of Nature researcher Troy McMullin talks about the ecological functions of lichens in the High Arctic.| Canadian Museum of Nature
Located on Ellesmere Island, Nunavut, the Beaver Pond site features animal and plant fossils from almost four million years ago. First discovered in the 1960s, the site contains remains of a Boreal-type forest and wetland, suggesting a much warmer Arctic climate. Find out how museum scientists and volunteers are analyzing…| Canadian Museum of Nature
From fireflies and weevils to ladybugs and scarabs, beetles are extremely diverse. They also play important roles in the ecosystem, aiding with decomposition, reducing pest populations and pollinating plants. Students Tierney Kist and Skyler Martineau are spending the summer collecting and recording all kinds of beetles at the museum’s Natural…| Canadian Museum of Nature