One of the world's preeminent centers of taxonomy is the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History in Washington, D.C. There, scientists like spider expert Jonathan Coddington use ...

“She’d lost 20, and several others had decayed down to the root stubs,” says Douglas Owsley, the head of physical anthropology at Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History, whose ...

A jawbone dredged up from the seafloor off Taiwan belongs to an ancient human species known as Denisovans, protein fragments ...

SANTA BARBARA, Calif. – The Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History's annual exhibit, Butterflies Alive!, has been nominated ...

“The nominees are chosen by experts and reviewed by USA TODAY 10BEST editors, but it’ll be up to the public to choose the final winners,” says Zsembik. “We expect to be in the running with some big ...

At the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History, for example, the exhibit on “The Star-Spangled Banner,” which dates to 1964, is refreshingly devoid of ideological baggage and comes across as ...

President Donald Trump wasn’t always at loggerheads with the museums that make up the Smithsonian Institute ... new National African American Museum of History and Culture for a tour with ...

The Museum of American Finance, the nation’s only independent museum dedicated to finance and financial history, plans to open a new permanent location in Boston next summer, marking a new era ...

You may even want more than a full day to see everything. Visitors can reach the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History & Culture by taking the Metro's Blue, Orange or Silver ...

Discovered in Taiwan, the jawbone is believed to have belonged to an enigmatic group of early human ancestors called ...

Step into the artist’s fantastical “Empathic Universe” at the Museum of Arts and Design in New York, where everything seems ...