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Shrimp-like Cystisoma are protected from predators by being virtually invisible – thanks to unique retina and a body that casts almost no shadow

All presidential portraits in Smithsonian privately funded, museum says

Extreme temperatures are taking a toll on zoo animals. Zoos throughout the U.S. are finding ways to help animals beat the heat.

For decades, the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History has held the remains of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, whose bones were taken from Australia without permission. But after long negotiations, these men are bringing their ancestors home.

Scientists face a challenge: A troubled species rebounds thanks to restoration efforts, only to make things worse for others by preying on them or outcompeting them for food and living space.

The museum and J. Paul Getty Trust will digitize and make available material that documents African American life for most of the 20th century.

In southwest Nigeria, West Africa's only natural history museum serves as a world class facility for conservation of natural resources. Built in 1973 as part of the zoology department at Obafemi Awolowo University, Nigeria's Natural History Museum was left abandoned for over 30 years before it was renovated and reopened…

Small, ancient sculptures that have been gathering dust in an Albuquerque storage box are returning home to Mexico

On a recent outing my wife and I took in a touring exhibit from the Smithsonian Institution titled “Righting a Wrong.” Within the modest confines of a single room at the Minnesota History Center in St. Paul, the exhibit conveyed an epic tragedy: the incarceration of 120,000 Japanese Americans and…

CSIRO's national herbarium collection is being digitised

The National Women's History Museum and the National Museum of the American Latino were authorized by Congress in 2020.