Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County

That's how I felt when, uh, I went into...

There was a willow house, a willow hut at the LA Natural History Museum that was built by Dave Lovejoy.

Oh, yeah, my friend Dave.

Yeah.

The reason is the warmer water from El Nino and a marine heat anomaly.

Greg Pauly, the curator of herpetology with the Natural History Museum, says it'll be an unprecedented year for sport fishing.

Species may show up that have never been documented as far north in the eastern Pacific.

Yellow-bellied sea snakes could also show up, although only six have ever been documented at SoCal beaches.

Beachgoers are asked to take pictures of any unusual sightings.

Aileen Gonzalez, KFI News.

Email pictures of those unusual sightings to the Natural History Museum of L.A. County at nature at nhm.org. Cloudy, some fog through the night, clear tomorrow, and a little hotter, a little hotter Saturday, down a bit on Sunday and into early next week.

Right now, 69 in Culver City, 70 in Santa Ana.

So for the people that don't know what that is, how do they play a role in helping preserve the

Yes, so the museum previously was under the care of the Natural History Museum, which is NHM, and it is a subset of the county.

And so they, as caretakers of the museum before us, we had a great period of transition with them where we were able to ask what their practices were, to kind of compare those with practices that we wanted to put in place, really with all a shared understanding that everyone wanted the best for what would happen here and what the artifacts would be like in another 100 years.

And you kind of threw it in there while you were talking, but the bear's name is Skippy?

Anyway, speaking of great looking things, the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, which is located in South Los Angeles in Exposition Park, now, I, I think we mentioned at the top of the show, uh, doesn't actually open to the public till September 22nd, but Drew did get to tour this 300-square-foot facility.

Uh, and, and it, it's, it's adjacent to the Natural History Museum there in Los Angeles County.

Is it...

That's not the one built around the La Brea Tar Pits, is it? Is that-

the scientific institutions of LA.

When I was in high school, I spent a lot of weekends at the Natural History Museum.

And I really, that's, I think, where I got a deep appreciation for the scientific and educational resources that are available in that ginormous city.

But lately, the reason why I find this relevant is I've noticed how difficult it can be to find something as seemingly straightforward and accurate as the time of the lunations.

Oh, it's tight, too.

It's really close to the Natural History Museum.

You're kind of like, ooh, ah.

It's just funny.

What else has been happening? I've had a lovely holiday to California.

I dragged Jake, my boyfriend, to the Natural History Museum, which is excellent there, guys.

You do have to pay $20 to park, but they have one 0.2 carat fasted red barrel, which was definitely worth saying.

Yeah, really, really cool collection.