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 ...

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

Major museums face scrutiny as the Smithsonian undergoes review to eliminate political bias. But climate change messaging and ...

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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 ...

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

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Night at the Museum is being brought back to life in an upcoming reboot. The original franchise spanned three live-action ...

Researchers were able to date the fossil of the flying reptile, a close cousin of dinosaurs, back to more than 209 million ...

Nearly 20 years after Ben Stiller first played a night guard at New York’s Museum of Natural History, Night at the Museum is ...

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

We went behind the scenes to see how the museum is digitizing its entire collection and building a DNA library to help solve real-world problems.