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

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

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 ...

The museum is celebrating the fifth anniversary of the David H Koch Hall of Fossils — Deep Time. Along with the Allosaurus, the hall features some 700 mounted fossil specimens.

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.