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She was labeled New Jersey Skeleton 1972, but everyone called her "Sandy"

With its Smithsonian museums, Capitol building and White House, Washington, D.C., offers loads of memorable sights, none more so than watching Dan Snyder walk to his motorcade to leave a Washington football game.

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