The Smithsonian issued a statement Monday saying that it controls its personnel decisions after President Donald Trump announced in May that he was ousting National Portrait Gallery director Kim Sajet ...

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 ...

National Museum of Natural History Snails are among the most evolutionarily successful animals on the planet. Truly embodying the phrase “slow and steady wins the race,” snails have existed ...

and the Natural World,” the curators at the National Gallery of Art team up with the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History to create a dazzling exhibition of 16th and 17th century prints, ...

Rhubarb is quite rich in vitamin K, Wegman notes, which plays an important role in proper blood clotting. Vitamin K also promotes the "formation and strengthening of bones ," she says, and "helps ...

A screening for "Walking with Dinosaurs" was held Tuesday night at the Smithsonian Natural History Museum. The new, six-part series tells the story of a dinosaur whose remains are still being ...

From afar, the Black Smithsonian looks like a stepsibling of its better known and longer established neighbors. The National Museum of Natural History, with its august columns and stolid air ...

set out to walk 43 miles from his church to the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. Turner, who has made the trip from ...

And now, nearly four years later, his Raiders jersey will be heading to Washington, D.C., to take its place in the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History. "It is one of the coolest ...

On Saturday, June 28, the museum is hosting its second annual Dinosaur Day with special interactive activities led by our education team and in-person fossil identifications by our paleontologists ...

Jamestown’s Bones Dr. Douglas Owsley, Curator of Physical Anthropology at Washington’s Smithsonian Natural History Museum, described his forensic work to determine the identities of early ...