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A Bounty of Butterflies Arrives at the Smithsonian

Entomologist Floyd Shockley drove across the country to pick up a premier butterfly and moth collection

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Meet the Smithsonian Scientist Studying the Mysterious Mongolian Deer Stones

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Explore Viral Bat Research and More Natural History Programs This March

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Meet the Smithsonian Scientist Venturing to Volcanoes to Understand the Origins of Earth’s Surface

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In 1904, Theodore Roosevelt Won a Presidential Election…And a Pair of Ostriches

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Five Facts About the Smithsonian’s Sprawling Whale Collection That Will Blow Your Mind

In an aerial shot of the desert, a dry lakebed is surrounded by swaths of white salt flats.

Clay-Encrusted Microbes Provide Clues to How Early Life Developed on Earth and Potentially Mars

A large research vessel with a cell tower on top sails across a dark blue stretch of ocean that expands towards a paler blue sky along the horizon.

Smithsonian Scientists Unearth Signs of an Ancient Climate Calamity Buried Beneath the Seafloor

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2022 in Review: The Year’s Top Discoveries by Museum Researchers

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2022 in Review: Smithsonian Staff Sifts Through an Ocean of Fossils

Multiple pages of paper adorned with brown and yellow pressed plant specimens sit, one after the other, on a dark gray table-like surface. In the background are two people with purple gloves on.

2022 in Review: The National Herbarium Goes Digital

A man wearing a white hard hat, neon vest, dark gray pants and yellow gloves sits in a pit of dark rock. Just below his knees is a boulder with a piece of lighter gray fossil sticking out of the top.

Meet the Smithsonian Director Bringing a Deep Time Perspective to the International Climate Discussion

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Viking Women and Black-Footed Ferrets Are Coming to the Museum This Holiday Season

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Lucy’s Legacy: Celebrating the 48th Anniversary of Her Discovery with a Selfie

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How Leafcutter Ants and Other Culinary Creatures Prepare a Feast

A tan-colored skull and spine sticks out of a sandy surface. The jaws of the elongated skull are studded with sharp teeth that are angled at the viewer.

This November, Be Thankful for Specialty Spirits and Ancient Sea Monsters

A group of several bison with dark fur traverses a light green colored landscape of grasslands as rays of late afternoon light stream through several gold-tinged clouds. In the distance are more bison and the horizon is framed by distant mountains.

For the Love of the Buffalo

A landscape shot featuring a cloudy gray sky, snow-covered mountains in the distance above a turquoise expanse of glacial ice on the horizon and a dark blue expanse of water in the foreground.

Community Archeology Helps Bridge Gap Between Science and Tradition

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To Understand How Animals See in the Abyss, Scientists Peer Through the Eyes of an Alien Amphipod

A tan woolly mammoth skeleton facing left bends its front legs and tilts its tusks towards the bottom of the frame.

Celebrate Fabulous Fossils and More Natural History Programs This October

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A Bounty of Butterflies Arrives at the Smithsonian

Meet the Smithsonian Scientist Studying the Mysterious Mongolian Deer Stones

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