In celebration of World Walrus Day, National Museum of Natural History director Kirk Johnson talks about his new documentary ...

Carlos Savignano is part of a dedicated group of FossiLab volunteers preparing Smithsonian fossils for display and future research Alec Quinn Volunteer Carlos Savignano has worked in the museum’s ...

The scientists found that 64.1% of modern breed dogs carry wolf ancestry due to genetic crossbreeding nearly 1,000 ...

Beneath the National Museum of American History, floodwaters are intruding into collection rooms, a consequence of a warming planet. A fix remains years away. By Christopher Flavelle The Cooper Hewitt ...

The origins of the Division of Fishes, and ichthyological work at the Smithsonian, can be traced to the arrival of Spencer F. Baird as Assistant Secretary of the Smithsonian in 1850. He brought with ...

The Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History has acquired the 2.33-carat “Winston Red Diamond,” one of the world’s largest fancy red diamonds. It will be unveiled to the public on April 1 as ...

The accession contains two field books that document plant collecting conducted as part of the Project "Documentation and Revitalization of the Language and Traditional Ecological Knowledge of the ...

A recent study revealed that a majority of modern-day dog breeds had close contact with wolves several thousand years ago ...

For the final three decades of his life, the self-taught Dutch artist Joris Hoefnagel drew his way through the known natural world, one creature at a time. The result was a multi-volume manuscript, ...