Explore some of the Smithsonian's Sant Ocean Hall giants with ocean educator Lara Noren, museum educator Maggy Benson, and research zoologist Allen Collins. In this video, students will virtually ...

Hanging from the center ceiling overseeing the visitors of the museum is a life-sized model of "Phoenix" the North Atlantic Right Whale, the ambassador of the Sant Ocean Hall at the Smithsonian ...

The Trump administration is reviewing the National Museum of Natural History as part of a broad inquiry into the Smithsonian Institute. The museum's exhibits cover Earth's 4.5-billion-year history, ...

Underneath the towering 11-ton African Bush Elephant immortalized in the rotunda of the Smithsonian Natural History Museum, Kathryn Jones unfurled her map. Unlike the tourists in bucket hats and ...

The year’s most notable findings also include insights into dog and sheep domestication and a new species of manta ray in the ...