A first-ever collaboration between the National Gallery of Art and the Smithsonian examines the birth of natural history.

At the American Museum of Natural History here in New York, I had the pleasure of experiencing both at the same time.

For more than 100,000 years, coastal communities have harvested abalone (genus Haliotis). These gastropods, which are found ...

Dippy – a complete cast of a diplodocus skeleton – is Britain’s most famous dinosaur. It has resided at the Natural History ...

The basement floor archive and laboratories now house 1.5 million specimens of ancient life in San Diego County ...

Scientists announced the discovery of a new species of early tyrannosaur in a museum vault in Mongolia, an ancestor to ...

When visitors arrive at the San Diego Natural History Museum ... of-wonder. Animal encounters: From 1:30 to 2 p.m. on the second and fourth Saturdays of each month in the museum’s Living ...

Still, researchers have found some intriguing clues as to which species might be the best smeller. One place to look is the ...

At a site known as Natural Trap Cave, a team of scientists are rappelling down to uncover the secrets of what the Earth was ...

Paleontologists have discovered fossils of a 506 million-year-old tiny three-eyed predator nicknamed the “sea moth,” according to a new study.