The Humboldt Museum's centerpiece attraction comprises several sets of wooly mammoth bones unearthed near the Black Rock Desert. The bones are 13,000 years old!

The Humboldt Museum has many display cases featuring mineral specimens, arrowheads, and historic china.

Augustasaurus hagdorni from North Central Nevada is a new marine vertebrate fauna.  The closest known relative is known only from a single specimen found in Germany.