Satellite images and a trek into the rainforest reveal a group of trees over 80 meters, or about 260 feet, and one as tall as 88.5 meters
These museums and companies around the country pair the public with paleontologists to uncover buried bones
A Triassic creature left curious tracks in the sandstone; it took decades to unravel the mystery
Using rock cores from Chicxulub crater, geologists piece together a new timeline of the destruction that followed impact
A new time-lapse video of over 6,000 leaf photos reveals the biology behind fall foliage
Enormous crinoids of the Jurassic era, related to sea stars and sea urchins, could have carried whole ecosystems around the world
In the latest episode of ‘Re:Frame,’ Smithsonian curators take a deep dive into the dramatic painting ‘Aurora Borealis’ by Frederic Church
New research suggests a polarity reversal of the planet takes about 22,000 years, significantly longer than former estimates
Smithsonian's Sidedoor podcast visits with researchers working to understand the conditions these threatened plants need to grow
A new episode of the Smithsonian’s ‘Re:Frame,’ explores the origin of graphite, a material artists have used for centuries
Citizen scientists can submit leaf samples from their hometowns through the end of August
An ambitious collaboration between paleontologists and a local mining community seeks to conserve the rare fossilized remains
One of India’s finest plant scientists, Janaki Ammal spurred her country to protect its rich tropical diversity
“Prey would have been sucked into the circular mouth and shredded by the multiple rows of large teeth”
From exoplanets to chemical reactions, scientists inch closer to solving the great mystery of how life forms from inanimate matter
New research finds that previous periods of warming and cooling driven by natural causes were regional shifts in temperature rather than global events
After discovering 'Irish moss' in coastal waters, Irish immigrants launched a booming mossing industry in Scituate, Massachusetts
New ancient animals will likely be discovered in 310 million-year-old fossilized trees in Nova Scotia
A small, 150 million-year-old dinosaur unearthed in Wyoming ran on the ground, but it may have been closely related to some of the first fliers
The Fourth of July is also National Fry an Egg on the Sidewalk Day, and no amount of scientific logic can crack this tradition
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