Meet the shamans of snowy Siberia with the Jesup North Pacific Expedition—one of the largest anthropology expeditions of all time. Curator Laurel Kendall tells the story of how the Museum’s pre-Soviet collections remain vital to the preservation of a living culture.

Check out a quick primer on how to watch 360 video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXO5bnyBhzo

Go behind the scenes to see conservators working in the Division of Anthropology’s Objects Conservation Laboratory:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZuYhwozw9Y

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For Shelf Life’s Season 2, pack your bags for adventure. Explore fantastic stories from more than a century of expeditions that helped build the Museum’s 33 million specimens and artifacts—and find out what scientists are still uncovering about them today.

For more, visit our series website: http://www.amnh.org/ShelfLife

Series Trailer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2PmDLfWt1Q

Episode 1: 33 Million Things
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NR-xl7W0vo

Episode 2: Turtles and Taxonomy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmXqn9AW2Kc

Episode 3: Six Ways to Prepare a Coelacanth
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqL17uabbso

Episode 4: Skull of the Olinguito
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OEYfY0mRc5k

Episode 5: How To Time Travel To a Star
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5xJqFtPGAA

Episode 6: The Tiniest Fossils
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLSa8cGJixQ

Episode 7: The Language Detectives
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=92IvcuQF9cg

Episode 8: Voyage of the Giant Squid
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W47by1jPTPw

Episode 9: Kinsey’s Wasps
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHc5l4gQsro

Episode 10: The Dinosaurs of Ghost Ranch
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=567bv6xmuss

Episode 11: Green Grow the Salamanders
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uV9Z-pHr-nE

Episode 12: Six Extinctions In Six Minutes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZuwOgcS1W0

360 Episode: Fossil Hunting in the Gobi
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDdqd8c_-hY

Episode 13: Nothing But the Tooth
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTyNGtadjq0

Episode 14: Into the Island of Bats
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIYPKljj7cY


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