We humans love owls. Why not? With their flat faces and forward facing eyes they look more like us than any other bird. It is only the owls at our […]
Draper Natural History Museum
Draper Natural History Museum staff and volunteers work with museum exhibits, programs, labwork, and conduct ecological research in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem. They also keep up with and share wildlife and science news and issues related to this world-renowned, natural treasure.
Museum Minute: The Bighorn Rams of Christmas Eve 2000
It’s Christmas Eve 2000. The curator of the Draper Museum of Natural History, Dr. Charles Preston and his wife were driving along the North Fork corridor when they spotted a […]
Museum Minute: The American Cheetah
The American Cheetah is a prehistoric mammal that roamed Northern Wyoming in the Miocene and the Pleistocene Epochs. The American Cheetah is thought to be the driving evolutionary force responsible […]
Did You Know? Ten Amazing Facts About Birds of Prey and Vultures
Within our natural world we are surrounded by amazing facts of life. In this blog I have presented 10 remarkable facts on the lifestyles of birds of prey and vultures. […]
Monarch of the Skies: How Golden Eagles Reveal the Intricacies of an Entire Ecosystem
The Draper Natural History Museum at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West opened a new permanent exhibition on June 10, 2018. The exhibition focuses on the last ten years […]
Center of the West shares golden eagle research in new exhibition
A new exhibition is soon to take flight at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West’s Draper Natural History Museum, Monarch of the Skies: the Golden Eagle in Greater Yellowstone […]
