👻Season’s greetings from the ghost mantis!

🍂Its leaflike appearance helps camouflage it in the trees. When threatened, it may “act” like a leaf by mimicking the movements of foliage in the wind. When hunting, it remains still until a meal comes close enough for it to snatch.

Does Halloween have you feeling as ghoulish as this sea critter? The bearded ghoul fish lurks on the ocean floor in the Indo-Pacific. Few animals dare to eat it, as it can inject a powerful venom via its dorsal spines—which is why this fish is also known as the demon stinger.😈

Wary of trick-or-treaters at your doorstep? If so, you might relate to the Gray Go-away-bird. This avian’s common name is a reference to its call, which sounds like, “g’way!” It’s a species of turaco that inhabits parts of southern Africa such as Angola, Botswana, and Tanzania.

Here's a spooky season fan favorite for today’s Exhibit of the Day: the Museum’s famous dinosaur mummy. It’s a fossilized carcass of a duck-billed dinosaur that offers a rare glimpse at the texture of dinosaur skin. This animal's skin was similar to the skin on bird feet!

Here’s one bird that might be sipping on blood this Halloween: the Hood Mockingbird.🩸

It inhabits forests or woodland on the Galapagos’ Española Island. During dry seasons, it sometimes feeds on blood from the wounds of larger animals, like iguanas, sea lions, & albatrosses.

Éste #FossilFriday es especial para éste fin de semana de halloween 🎃. Un #dunkleosteus en el American Museum of Natural History

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with cavernous and organic architecture by studiogang, the american museum of natural history American Museum of Natural History takes shape in new york. designboom.com/architecture/s…

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Check out this early look at the new Gilder Center American Museum of Natural History on Spectrum News NY1 it opens in February designed by studiogang #science #architecture #UWS #NYC

This “ghost” won’t sneak up on you—unless you happen to be a crustacean.👻

The ghost pipefish lurks around coral reefs & seaweed beds, munching on small organisms like mysids (small crustaceans) & small benthic shrimp. It inhabits the tropical waters of the Indo-Pacific.

📣The countdown begins! The Richard Gilder Center for Science, Education, and Innovation at the American Museum of Natural History opens in 112 days.

🌟Learn more about the Gilder Center, designed by studiogang, opening on February 17, 2023, here: bit.ly/3W7ggR2

Why does the “werewolf mouse” howl? Also known as the grasshopper mouse, its howls are high-pitched vocalizations used to share information with others of its species. This carnivorous rodent is a fierce predator, hunting snakes, scorpions, centipedes, and other mice.🐺🐭

How does the fungus Ophiocordyceps unilateralis turn a carpenter ant into a 'zombie ant?' The fungus infects an ant & leads it to perish on the underside of a leaf. A fruiting body then sprouts from the ant’s head, dispersing spores to infect even more ants.🧟🐜🍄

With her addition to New York’s American Museum of Natural History, Jeanne Gang, our 2022 Architecture Innovator, is shining a light on the power of architecture to bring people closer to the natural world—and to each other.⁠ wsj.com/articles/archi…

Last night was another research session in the Hayden planetarium. We worked on ensuring software tool synergy (between Glue, OpenSpace and AAS WorldWide Telescope) and then flew around the local 3D Milky Way discovering and defining evidence for star formation. So fun. American Museum of Natural History

‘Tis the season🦑🐋 #SpookySeason

Boo—it's the ghost bat! This critter’s name is a nod to the pale color of its fur. The Australian species lives in a range of habitats such as rainforests, tropical savannas, mangroves, & woodlands. It has a varied diet, preying on reptiles, insects, small mammals, & birds.👻🦇