Unearthing the Fossil Record. Paleobiologists at the Smithsonian study fossil animals, plants, and single-celled organisms to understand the biological and environmental history of Earth. The National ...

The stone takes its name from Ronald Winston, who gave it to the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History in 2023, continuing a tradition that began with his father, Harry Winston, the ...

The Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History will finally reopen its dinosaur and fossil hall for the first time since 2014 on June 8: The David H. Koch Hall of Fossils — Deep Time. And ...

But the story of how his leggings and lock of hair were stolen and loaned to the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History was lost for over 100 years — until the mid-1990s — when ...

Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History visitors shouldn’t expect to see mega-sized dinosaur bones or the newly arrived fossil superstar Tyrannosaurus rex any time soon. The museum’s ...

The National Museum of Natural History’s “Unsettled Nature” uses art — yes art — to deliver a grim yet disturbingly beautiful message about the environment.

The Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History and Culture presents a new exhibition, “Lights Out: Recovering Our Night Sky,” that focuses on how the night sky’s disappearance is ...