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Not much is known about the megamouth, which was first observed by scientists in 1976. A new specimen (not pictured above) has traveled to the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History, where researchers will study it to learn more about its behavior and life cycle. (Zola Chen)

National Museum of Natural History

Rare Megamouth Shark Arrives at the Smithsonian

A man's robe from China, designed from 1796 to 1820, from the Cooper Hewitt collection. (Cooper Hewitt)

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Discover Smithsonian Open Access with 5 Design Treasures

Scientists use a California condor specimen from 1835 — part of the Smithsonian’s very first collection of items — to study the critically endangered species. Pictured: a young California condor in Pinnacles National Park. (Gavin Emmons)

National Museum of Natural History

How Scientists Still Use the Smithsonian’s First Collections, 175 Years Later

Smithsonian Geologist Liz Cottrell answers your questions in the National Museum of Natural History’s YouTube series, “The Doctor Is In.” (Smithsonian Institution)

National Museum of Natural History

How to Identify Rocks and Other Questions From Our Readers

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Smithsonian American Art Museum and the Renwick Gallery

Fire, Cloud, Earth: Native Women Artists at SAAM

Sahara Conservation Fund ecological monitoring member Habib Ali (next to vehicle) engaging in typical day-to-day monitoring of reintroduced oryx. Photo credit: Tim Wacher, Zoological Society of London.

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Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

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Walter Pach, Street in Mexico, Francis M. Naumann Fine Art, New York

Archives of American Art

How a Once Hidden Cache of Art and Archives Expand Narratives of Walter Pach and Mexican Modernism

Bat ticks (Ornithodoros) under a microscope. These parasites primarily feed on bats and were collected from bats roosting beneath a Mayan Temple in Belize. Very little is known about these ticks and many species are unknown to science. (Kelly Speer)

National Museum of Natural History

Why We Need to Save the Parasites

Marching for the Release of the Wilmington 10 (Cape Fear Museum of History and Science)

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One Short March, One Long Journey

North American River Otter (Lontra canadensis) at Florida's Pelican Island National Wildlife Refuge. (Credit: Keenan Adams, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service)

Smithsonian Environmental Research Center

River Otters Take Party Pooping To A New Level

Lontra canadensis, the North American river otter. (Credit: Matthew Fryer)

Smithsonian Environmental Research Center

The Secret Lives of River Otters (And Their Parasites)

Artist's concept of Mars 2020 rover with sample tubes.

National Air and Space Museum

Why NASA Is Headed Back to Mars with Mars Rover Perseverance

Plunguian’s watercolor of Einstein in his Princeton office (Courtesy of Smithsonian Institution Archives)

Office of Academic Appointments and Internships

Einstein’s “Relatively” Surprising Test Results

Lemur leaf frogs, best known for their big, striking eyes, are critically endangered.

National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute

Meet the Lemur Leaf Frog

Dressed in ceremonial regalia, Senator Ben Nighthorse Campbell (Northern Cheyenne), a veteran of the Korean War, stands with World War II veteran Senator Daniel K. Inouye and Native American veterans of the Vietnam War during the opening of the National Museum of the American Indian on the National Mall. September 21, 2004, Washington, D.C. (Mario Tama/ AFP for the National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian)

National Museum of the American Indian

A Native American Remembrance on Korean Armistice Day

Portrait of Eleanor Garnier Hewitt, who co-founded Cooper Hewitt with her sister Sarah, painted in 1888 by Antonia de Bañuelos and an iBook Laptop Computer designed in 1999 by the Apple Industrial Design Team.

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

7 Funky Backgrounds For Your Next Virtual Happy Hour

Jill Heinerth, a Canadian cave diver, underwater explorer, writer, photographer and filmmaker, shares stories from her expeditions in a live-streamed event on Aug. 12. (Jill Heinerth)

Smithsonian Associates

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Scientists plan to piece together the genetic code of all plants, animals, fungi and protists within the next ten years as part of the Earth BioGenome Project.

National Museum of Natural History

Scientists to Read DNA of All Eukaryotes in 10 Years

Smithsonian Geologist Liz Cottrell answers your questions in the National Museum of Natural History’s YouTube series, “The Doctor Is In.” (Smithsonian Institution)

National Museum of Natural History

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