The “remarkably complete” skull of the Pachycephalosaurus dinosaur is going on display later this month at the Smithsonian’s ...

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Smithsonian museums, research centers and the National Zoo are closed as the partial government shutdown continues. The Smithsonian Institution touts itself as the world’s largest complex of museums, ...

The zoo announced Monday that staff are preparing for the highly anticipated birth of an Asian elephant calf. The first in nearly 25 years.

Pausing next to a hulking steam locomotive at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History on Friday, Kathryn Jones bent down to look at a tiny silk slipper. “I’ve never seen one in person.