Underneath the towering 11-tonne African bush elephant immortalised in the rotunda of the Smithsonian Natural History Museum, ...

Kathryn Jones is on a mission to read every plaque in every D.C.-area Smithsonian. While she didn’t start the project for ...

An ant and fly from the Cretaceous period offer insights into the history of Ophiocordyceps, the fungal parasite made popular ...

Museum visitors will have the opportunity to hold real fossils in the “David H. Koch Hall of Fossils - Deep Time,” hear from a renowned paleoartist and watch a new documentary about the most ...

Paleontologists have identified a new ancient reptile from the Solnhofen limestone slabs, thanks to a chance discovery. A ...

Paleontologists studying insects trapped in amber from 99 million years ago have made a remarkable discovery: an ant and a ...

Of all the spectacular museums in DC, Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History is my kids’ favorite! It is the one ...

Diana is what’s known as a “fossil preparator,” working in full view of the public inside the oblong, glass-enclosed FossiLab at D.C.’s Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History ...

Fossils in the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History research collection in its Department of Paleobiology. Before this study, a reliable temperature curve for the Phanerozoic did not ...

Fossil records indicate that the earliest humans evolved between 2 million and 6 million years ago, according to the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History's Human Origins Program.

Among Smithsonian Magazine's Most Anticipated Museums, the Edelman Fossil Park and Museum has another feature that makes Lacovara proud: He worked with architects, planners, vendors and builders ...

The Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C., told Mashable it did not have a formal policy on fossil fuel companies and was not involved in any organized divestment ...