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

A new study highlights a surprising lens for tracking pollution trends over centuries: preserved plants and animals housed at ...

Museum specimens like feathers and fish tissues contain pollution traces - offering clues about environmental changes.

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

Visitors will be able to watch scientists at work behind glass walls and see fossilized bones like whale skulls on open ...

From the legendary Hope Diamond to a rainbow of colorful gemstones, a multigenerational bond between the Winston family and ...

While the word "fossils" may have once once conjured images of elderly, nearsighted scientists toiling in silence in dank, ...

The Museum of Natural History was founded in 1956, though the university began collecting and storing artifacts and specimens as early as 1837. Then called the Exhibit Museum, it was officially ...

“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 ...