Antarctica is famously an icy wasteland in the modern day, but far in the past, dinosaurs once roamed a very different, ...
For decades, paleontologists debated whether fossils were of a young T. rex or a species called nanotyrannus. A new study ...
A new study of dinosaur biodiversity challenges the belief that the megafauna were on their way out 66 million years ago ...
For birds, black feathers provide certain flight advantages. That's because black feathers contain more pigment-packed melanosomes than do feathers of other colors, and melanosomes can bind with ...
(The Hill) – The Smithsonian Institution should be able to remain open for another week but will close should the government shutdown persist beyond next Saturday. Smithsonian museums, research ...
WASHINGTON -- Smithsonian museums and the National Zoo, which receive federal funding, are closing temporarily amid the federal government shutdown. The shutdown impacts all 21 of the Smithsonian's ...