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

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

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

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

Inside the fiercely competitive Federal Duck Stamp Contest, part of the wildly successful conservation program that has ...

To help ring in the traditional seven-day celebration, the Smithsonian’s Anacostia Community Museum has put together a list of events ... pour the libation honoring ancestors and share the history of ...

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 ...

The ominous swirling grey of Hurricane Milton is captured in the Gulf of Mexico in this shot from the Cooperative Institute for Research in the Atmosphere. In October, Milton became one of the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Natural History Museum scientists have described and named 190 new species to science in 2024 The list includes a snake named after actor Leonardo DiCaprio, a species of fossilised dung named after ...

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 ...