Natural history museums contain an astonishing snapshot of the planet's biodiversity. Using this information to better ...

The new work adds to the legacy of Dave Johnson, a long-time museum curator famed for his detail-oriented research on fishes Jack Tamisiea A pair of coelacanth specimens that were formerly on loan to ...

WASHINGTON – As visitors walk into the rotunda of the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, they’re greeted by an 11-ton taxidermized African Bush elephant, affectionately nicknamed Henry.

The Trump administration is reviewing the National Museum of Natural History as part of a broad inquiry into the Smithsonian Institute. The museum's exhibits cover Earth's 4.5-billion-year history, ...