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

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 ...

An exhibit on human origins at the Smithsonian vastly overstates the genetic similarity between humans and apes and needs to be fixed according to Discovery Institute.

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At roughly 22 feet long and tipping the scales near 11,000 pounds, Lokiceratops is the heavyweight champion of North American ...

“You share 50 percent of your DNA with each of your parents. But with bananas, we share about 50 percent of our genes,” Mike ...

The National Gallery of Art pairs art and science in a survey of some of the finest Dutch and Flemish painting of the 17th ...

In today’s episode of “Matt About Town,” we’re unmasking the identity of “Capitalsaurus,” diving deep into the story behind ...

Molecular clues from collagen in old bones are teaching us about the lives, movements, and demise of Ice Age megafauna like ...

To survive the deep ocean, sea creatures need all kinds of adaptations that give them alien-like appearances, like huge eyes ...

Explore the National Arboretum after hours, party in the street at Sundress Fest, celebrate Argentine culture and enjoy the ...

Pressed into a piece of rock is the flattened, 47 million-year-old body of a cicada. Measuring about 1 inch (26.5 millimeters ...