WTOP gets a look at how a “fossil preparator” uncovers the past at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History in D.C.

Her world—100 million years ago in Myanmar—is not one of vast seas, towering mountains or broad deserts, but a damp and gnarled landscape of branches, trunks and leaves that provide a seemingly ...

Riley Black is the author of The Last Days of the Dinosaurs and many other books. She is a science correspondent for Smithsonian magazine covering fossils and natural history, and she writes about ...

We envy the flight of feathered creatures, wonder how they’re connected to dinosaurs, and how they’re doing now. Want to know more? Check out the Migratory Bird Center at the Smithsonian's National ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...