Melissa Betters is a Peter Buck postdoctoral fellow at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. Her research focuses on the discovery, evolution and biogeography of deep-sea gastropod ...

Winston would become the diamond’s final private owner before entrusting it to its permanent home in the National Museum of Natural History. The Hope Diamond on display in its original exhibit ...

Measurement standards underlie most fields of science – without them, researchers couldn’t compare the results of different ...

This tiny stone is an anomaly of geology. It is the rarest kind of diamond — graded “Fancy red,” pure and unmodified by other ...

Channel Islands National Park includes Santa Rosa Island, a virtual natural history museum with miles of uncrowded trails and breathtaking cliff-top ocean views. White sand beaches greet travelers ...

The home, also known as Clear Comfort, was lived in by Austen -- who is recognized as one of the earliest and most prolific ...

Stories like that of Noah’s ark provided a convenient template for making images of animals ... from the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History made to imitate a painting by Van ...

These could be anything from preserved Museum specimens to images, models or even cuddly toys ... with the stories behind the specimens and the science that drives the Natural History Museum’s mission ...

The unicorn is indeed the national animal of Scotland, per its official government designations. As such, we rate this claim ...

We hardly see the cartilaginous villain of “Jaws” before it tears through a skinny-dipper, a dog, a little boy and an overconfident fisherman.

From Conservation to Sustainability” focuses on the intersection of environmentalism, history and art, featuring dozens of ...

From left, Henry R. Munoz III, Eduardo Diaz, J. Mario Molina, Martha Molina Bernadett, Steve Case, Lonnie Bunch, III, Josephine Molina, Jorge Zamanillo and John C. Molina cut the opening ribbon ...