Human evolution’s biggest mystery, which emerged 15 years ago from a 60,000-year-old pinkie finger bone, finally started to ...

Textile art by Porfirio Gutiérrez. The Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History in January will host Zapotec-American multidisciplinary textile artist ...

The magazine’s most-read articles of the year included a deep dive on the Scopes "monkey trial," an interview with ...

The fossilized dentition will help paleontologists identify isolated Pachycephalosaurus teeth from the Hell Creek Formation in South Dakota.

He later wrote that Tookoolito asked, "Are you cold Mr. Hall?" Charles Francis Hall: I answered, "My feet are almost frozen. I cannot get them comfortable." Quickest thought, Tookoolito made passage ...

With studies of fossilized bones, gut contents, eggshells and more, paleontologists revealed new and captivating details ...

From a small island off the coast of Panama to the farthest reaches of space, the Smithsonian advanced our knowledge of the ...

Over the Christmas holiday, some museums, stores, and restaurants in Washington, D.C., will be closed, and others will have ...

Dr. David Schwimmer, an expert on the giant North American crocodilian genus Deinosuchus and a Columbus State University ...

A nearly complete skull of a thickheaded dinosaur seen in the Jurassic Park franchise is now on display at the National Museum of Natural History.

The Trump administration has signaled to the Smithsonian Institution that the White House could withhold federal funding from the museum organization if it does not comply with the administration’s ...