The Chicago Archaeopteryx features more soft tissue and delicate skeletal details than any known fossil of its kind, and ...

Learn the story of O.C. Marsh and how his unquenchable thirst for fossils delivered so many ancient animals to the halls of the Natural History Museum in the "The Dinosaur War" episode of the ...

The National Museum of Natural History contains the petrified remains of ancient trees that were once the centerpiece of a ...

Fossil sites in Australia hold pollen and spores from the dinosaur age, when the island straddled the Antarctic Circle. Now, ...

This updated article won a silver medal in the Society of American Travel Writers 2024 Western Chapter Writing Awards. If you ...

Mexidracon longimanus, an ornithomimid with extra-long arms. The new find significantly rewrites the diversity of dinosaurs.

With a collection of more than 147 million items, this robust Smithsonian museum on the National ... including Tyrannosaurus rex and triceratops dinosaurs. Other permanent exhibits explore human ...

The Smithsonian Institution is established after ... Leidy makes Hadrosaurus the first North American dinosaur to be described from a nearly-complete skeleton. In collaboration with William ...

Before his arrival at the Smithsonian in 2012, Johnson was a paleontologist at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science who led expeditions in 18 states and 11 countries. His research focuses on fossil ...

That resident was, of course, the fossil skull of a Triceratops dinosaur that had sat on display at the University of Colorado Museum of Natural History for decades. In May, a team from the ...