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 ...

Blue-ringed octopuses carry a killer concoction called tetrodotoxin (TTX), a potent neurotoxin that can paralyze living ...

Ben Stiller starred in the original franchise about the exhibits at the Natural History Museum coming to life.

The first "Night at the Museum" film debuted in 2006, based on the 1993 children's book of the same name by Milan Trenc. Ben ...

Erin Wunderlich. Erin Wunderlich is a science writing intern at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History. She covers natural history research and collections news for ...

Museum ichthyologist Cristhian Conde-Saldaña uses evolutionary genetics to study freshwater fishes and document at-risk ...

Fossils of the pterosaur were discovered in Petrified Forest National Park. The fossils date back 209 million years.

A fossil from a seagull-sized winged reptile that lived millions of years ago was found in Arizona, and the creature has now ...

In the remote reaches of Arizona s Petrified Forest National Park, scientists have unearthed North America's oldest known pterosaur a small, gull-sized flier that once soared above Triassic ecosystems ...

Scientists have unearthed in Arizona fossils from an assemblage of animals, including North America's oldest-known flying ...

Ben Kligman, a Peter Buck Postdoctoral Fellow and paleontologist at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History, ...