The findings reveal that insects developed modern patterns of herbivory long before flowering plants flourished, upending a ...

Casts of skulls are exhibited in the Hall of Human Origins at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, in Washington. Photo: Jacquelyn Martin/AP Scientists have found genetics played a big ...

Images documenting the construction of the United States National Museum, now the National Museum of Natural History. In 1903 Congress authorized the Board of Regents to begin a new museum building, ...

Kirk Johnson is the Sant Director of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History where he oversees the world’s largest natural history collection. The museum hosts more than 6 million ...

He had found part of a human-like skull in Pleistocene gravel beds near Piltdown village in Sussex, England. Dawson wrote to Arthur Smith Woodward, Keeper of Geology at the Natural History Museum at ...

Inside of one the historic Mission 66 buildings (the mid-century initiative to modernize national park facilities), the Zion Human History Museum houses a collection of rotating artifacts found in ...

Other permanent exhibits explore human evolution ... The Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History's exhibits and facilities (including restrooms, several gift shops and two cafes) are ...