For more than 100,000 years, coastal communities have harvested abalone (genus Haliotis). These gastropods, which are found ...

Article ‘Count’ and ‘Share’ for National Museum of Natural History (NMNHS), BAS based on listed parameters only. The articles listed below published by authors from National Museum of ...

But few have thought more about it than paleoanthropologist Rick Potts, the director of the Human Origins Program at the National Museum of Natural History. Paleoanthropologist Rick Potts while ...

Aiding researchers across the globe, the National Museum of Natural History maintains and preserves the world’s most extensive collection of natural history specimens. Geologists and other scientists ...

The notably low-lit exhibition “Lights Out: Recovering Our Night Sky” is the National Museum of Natural History’s effort to illustrate what’s been lost as artificial illumination bleaches ...

That is, as long as they work. But a bustling, beeping exhibition that opened in June at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History teaches visitors all about the earth science that ...

The Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History has acquired the 2.33-carat “Winston Red Diamond,” one of the world’s largest fancy red diamonds. It will be unveiled to the public on ...