Better known as becoming the first Native American woman to receive a medical degree, Susan La Flesche, along with her sister ...

This year, the Institution’s museums are bringing to the public everything from the flair of state fairs to the artwork of ...

"Dubuque by Design" culminates a milestone with an exhibit exploring the impact of design made in, for and by the city.

About 7,000 public servants make up the Smithsonian Institution. That’s a fact that Smithsonian Secretary Lonnie G. Bunch III ...

Paleontologist Thaís Pansani standing in front of a reconstructed giant ground sloth skeleton at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. AP SAO PAULO (Associated Press ...

She's the center's director and coordinating curator for the Smithsonian ... in front of him saying, 'not a unicorn.” Jane Winchell, curator of natural history at the Peabody Essex Museum ...

New research from several sites is starting to suggest that people came to the Americas earlier — perhaps far earlier — than ...

More than 60 plane trees along the road in front of the museum are wrapped in pink-and ... race and culture to embrace themes of natural history and the planet’s evolutionary story.

Paleontologist Thais Pansani stands in front the reconstructed skeleton of a giant ground sloth at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C., on July 11. The Associate ...

Paleontologist Thaís Pansani stands in front the reconstructed skeleton of a giant ground sloth at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History in Washington. (Picture credit: AP ...

SAO PAULO (AP) — Sloths weren’t always slow-moving, furry tree-dwellers. Their prehistoric ancestors were huge — up to 4 tons — and when startled, they brandished immense claws. For a long ...