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

Across the world, natural history museums hold about 3 billion specimens of plants and animals in collections—and these ...

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

“It’s going to be a very iconic specimen,” adds paleontologist Kirk Johnson, director of the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History. The story of the Dueling ...

The wildly popular Nutella competitor El Mordjene has been banned by the European Union, a move some see as politically ...

The finely crafted glass flowers at the Harvard Museum of Natural History were created as a study tool for botany students and appear real.

A team of Washington State University-led researchers has recreated the world's oldest synthetic pigment, called Egyptian ...

Indian anthropologist Aditya Vij is an avid collector of artifacts from bygone eras and has dedicated his life to antiquities ...

You may even want more than a full day to see everything. Visitors can reach the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture by taking the Metro's Blue, Orange or Silver ...

but they also buried the carcass in the hopes that it can be exhumed one day and assembled as a museum specimen. “It’s a colossal reminder that our ocean still holds so many mysterious ...