The National Museum of Natural History contains the petrified remains of ancient trees that were once the centerpiece of a ...

A journey to the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture took me places I will not soon forget.

Ichthyologists Aléssio Datovo and Dave Johnson, a longtime curator of fishes at the National Museum of Natural History, recently used pickled coelacanth specimens to study the muscles packed ...

Meet the Smithsonian scientists preserving 144 M+ specimens to unlock Earth’s secrets, from bird strikes to climate change.