Time is running out on the Smithsonian’s seven-year loan of the Key Marco Cat to Marco Island Historical Museum.

Long-overlooked documents housed at London's Natural History Museum testify to the exchange of information between ...

Raising children in the DC area is an amazing adventure—it certainly has been for my family! From free museums and nature ...

The White House is escalating pressure on the Smithsonian Institution, demanding extensive internal records and warning that congressionally authorized funding could be withheld if the museum system ...

Who’s on the other end of your walkie-talkie? My friend. We’re using it to say where we are so we don’t get lost or anything. I like the cheetahs on your pajamas. They’re jaguars. Do you learn a lot ...

From fruit flies that bite to a tiny mouse opossum and a feathered dinosaur preserved with the remains of its last meal, more than 70 new species were described this year by researchers at the ...

The skull contains bones that researchers have never seen before. A rare dinosaur skull will soon go on display at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, but the fossil will not be on ...

Gretchen Baker, the Daniel G. and Carole L. Kamin Director of the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Oakland, will be leaving effective Dec. 31. The Carnegie Museums announced Monday that Baker ...

It was all gratitude for the prehistoric beasts that once roamed the earth at the American Museum of Natural History gala in New York. It was all gratitude for the prehistoric beasts that once roamed ...

Researchers studying thousands of canine genomes discovered that wolf DNA is still present in most dog breeds. This ancient genetic influence shows up in traits like body size, behavior, and ...

Natural History Museum Abu Dhabi by Mecanoo. Exterior photograph. Image Courtesy of Natural History Museum Abu Dhabi The Natural History Museum Abu Dhabi presents the story of life on Earth through an ...

Bernard DeVoto once tried to buck up his friend Catherine Drinker Bowen, who was wavering between a career in history and one in music. “Sure you’re romantic about American history,” wrote DeVoto, a ...