Trading gems, minerals, fossils and meteorites can be fraught with controversy and ethical ambiguity. But is the answer to ...

The Royal D. Suttkus Fish Collection is stored inside World War II-era ammunition bunkers in Belle Chasse, Louisiana. Video: Chelsea Brasted The world's largest collection of fish specimens, which is ...

This blog looks at recent research reveals royal connections for an antelope holotype we have in the museum’s collection.

How a collection of London pigeons and Galápagos mockingbirds provided the receipts for Darwin’s biggest ideas.

Scientists at Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria, Australia have described two new species of fungi, Peziza austroechinospora and Peziza meridionalis with the assistance of DNA sequencing, highlighting ...

Entomologists have discovered a new species of mining bee that has an unusually tight relationship with cenizo, the official ...

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has opened up a public comment period for a narrow part of Colorado’s experimental wolf ...

Meteorite hunters fanned out across a wide swath of Ohio on Thursday, hoping to collect fragments of an estimated 7-ton (6,350 kilograms) space rock that crashed into Earth this week after a dazzling ...

ARLINGTON, MA - March 16, 2026 - PRESSADVANTAGE - Urine testing remains one of the most commonly used screening methods ...

More than a century ago, the massive mammals actually grazed beside the Smithsonian Castle. As of today, two large sculptures continue that legacy as they flank the museum’s main entrance ...

Here’s a look at the most valuable silver coins and what you could expect to get for them if you find one in your couch cushions.

The Rietberg Museum in Zurich, which dates to the early 1950s, owes its origins to a collection largely amassed in the 1920s and 30s by German-Swiss banker Eduard von der Heydt, who regarded his ...