Dippy – a complete cast of a diplodocus skeleton – is Britain’s most famous dinosaur. It has resided at the Natural History Museum in London since 1905 and is now on show in Coventry where it is ...

The Hope Diamond on display in its original exhibit case at the National Museum of Natural History in 1958. Smithsonian Institution Archives “The Hope Diamond is one of the most important ...

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 ...

Of all the spectacular museums in DC, Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History is my kids’ favorite! It is the one ...

A newly discovered, raccoon-sized armored monstersaurian from the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in Southern ...

Measurement standards underlie most fields of science – without them, researchers couldn’t compare the results of different ...

We went behind the scenes to see how the museum is digitizing its entire collection and building a DNA library to help solve real-world problems.

A screening for "Walking with Dinosaurs" was held Tuesday night at the Smithsonian Natural History Museum. The new, six-part series tells the story of a dinosaur whose remains are still being ...

Scientists look inside the fossilized stomach contents of a massive dinosaur. And, why some birds listen for prairie dogs’ ...