Gratuitous beautiful insect photo! Monarch butterfly feeding on nectar. I took this photo while at work today at the Butterfly Pavilion at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. It’s moments like this that make my job so fascinating and wonderful. #NHM100 #nofilter #lepidoptera View high resolution

Gratuitous beautiful insect photo! Monarch butterfly feeding on nectar. I took this photo while at work today at the Butterfly Pavilion at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. It’s moments like this that make my job so fascinating and wonderful. #NHM100 #nofilter #lepidoptera

Curiosity of the day answer? It’s a fossilized leaf of Neuropteris-a seed fern from the Carboniferous, ~300 million years ago! This fossil is part of our teaching collection at th LACM. View high resolution

Curiosity of the day answer? It’s a fossilized leaf of Neuropteris-a seed fern from the Carboniferous, ~300 million years ago! This fossil is part of our teaching collection at th LACM.

Curiosity of the day: What is this? View high resolution

Curiosity of the day: What is this?

Flowers of the coral tree. Earth and life on it never ceases to amaze me! #nofilter #NHM100 #plantevolution View high resolution

Flowers of the coral tree. Earth and life on it never ceases to amaze me! #nofilter #NHM100 #plantevolution

Curiosity if the day answer: Pteranodon from Kansas with a shark tooth lodged in it’s cervical vertebra. One of the museum’s many mysteries! This specimen is on display in the Dinosaur Hall at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. Ouch! View high resolution

Curiosity if the day answer: Pteranodon from Kansas with a shark tooth lodged in it’s cervical vertebra. One of the museum’s many mysteries! This specimen is on display in the Dinosaur Hall at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. Ouch!