Starting on July 28, in Washington, D.C., the museum will welcome visitors to view "Boeing Milestones of Flight Hall," ...

Our human evolution workshops were conducted with well-resourced and historically disadvantaged schools attending. The grade ...

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

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

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

The Naranjo Museum of Natural History broke ground Monday on the first phase of a major expansion project that will bring new ...

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

Paleontologists uncovered another rare fossil in Texas. This time, it's a 60-million-year-old fossil of a giant possum-like ...

A stunning amber fossil discovery reveals ancient "zombie fungi" that controlled insects' behavior millions of years ago.

A glob of 99 million-year-old amber has preserved an ancient fly in horror show fashion: with the mushroom-like fruiting body ...

A new species of ancient lizard is discovered in Utah. The lizard, named Bolg amondol, lived 75 million years ago. It was ...

Fossils described in a new study speak to a previously unknown large-bodied lizard diversity that existed alongside dinosaurs ...