Draper Natural History Museum

Draper Natural History Museum staff and volunteers conduct long-term ecological research in the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem and keep up with all the wildlife and science news and issues related to this world-renowned, natural treasure. Keep up with Draper Museum fieldwork and Greater Yellowstone news and information here.

A Short-eared Owl
August 6, 2018

Owls in Native American Cultures

We humans love owls. Why not? With their flat faces and forward facing eyes they look more like us than any other…

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Bighorn sheep exhibit
July 12, 2018

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…

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June 21, 2018

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…

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Bearded Vulture
June 11, 2018

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…

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May 22, 2018

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….

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Monarch of the Skies. MoosejawBravo Photography
May 19, 2018

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…

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