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.

A journey to the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture took me places I will not soon forget.

Shark attacks on humans are rare. Despite how movies and the media depict them, sharks are not hunters of people. Your ...

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 ...

An upcoming exhibition featuring the work of LGBTQ+ African artists at the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art ... Truth and Sanity to American History,” which seeks to “restore the ...

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

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

Meet the Smithsonian scientists preserving 144 M+ specimens to unlock Earth’s secrets, from bird strikes to climate change.

In the eight years since it opened on the National Mall, the National Museum of African American History and Culture has become one of the glittering jewels of the Smithsonian Institution. With ...