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Kathryn Jones is on a mission to read every plaque in every D.C.-area Smithsonian. While she didn’t start the project for posterity, proposed cuts to the institution give her experiment extra weight.

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 ...

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

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

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.

The Smithsonian’s Museum of Natural History in D.C. is celebrating a significant milestone for one of its oldest fossils, known as Allosaurus.

Of all the spectacular museums in DC, Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History is my kids’ favorite! It is the one museum we must visit every time we go to DC even though it doesn’t have a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

WASHINGTON — A dinosaur fossil at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History is celebrating a big achievement for one of its fossils. Its fossilized skeleton of the Jurassic dinosaur ...