The Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History has one of the biggest bird collections in the world, housing over 600,000 specimens, from ducks to eagles to peacocks. The collection was ...

For instance, Smithsonian botanist Marcos Caraballo-Oritz – who studies mistletoe plants, including the dispersal of their seeds by birds – was invited into the research project. He helped ...

A new analysis from researchers at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History reveals that nearly half of the genus ...

Charles Bird King’s Indian Portraits were transferred to the ... from History of the Indian Tribes of North America Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum History of the Indian Tribes of North ...

This species was discovered and named by John Kress, an emeritus curator at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural ...

A new analysis from researchers at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History reveals ... Many Heliconia flowers resemble the striking plumage of birds-of-paradise.