Science

December 11, 2025

How the Rocky Mountains Formed: A Journey Through Changing Scientific Ideas

“Science is finding out where we’re wrong.” -J. Robert Oppenheimer I often hear people ask, “Why are scientists always changing their minds?”…

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Articulated Bison in the Draper Natural History Museum
July 23, 2025

Buffalo Brief: Prepping Wildlife Skeletons for Display

Editor’s Note: This story includes descriptions and images of preparing an animal skeleton, and might be a little graphic for some readers….

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October 22, 2024

Migration Season

By Chloe Winkler and Amy Phillips Fall affects us all in many different ways! As humans we tend to snuggle up inside…

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October 11, 2024

The Truth About Bats

Why do bats have such a bad reputation? Are they really disease-carriers, blood-drinking, flying rodents? …

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November 13, 2023

How trees survive winter

When trees first evolved, they existed only in the tropics and for good reason—50 percent of the tree is water. Cold temperatures…

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August 18, 2021

Don’t Fence Me In: A Draper and Science Kids Adventure

The Future of Wildlife Resides in the Hands of the Youth That was one of several take home messages that youth participants…

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