Six Animals the Smithsonian Has Helped Save From Extinction
For more than a century, the Institution has placed a scientific focus on studying and conserving threatened species
How Long Have Sea Cows Thrived in the Arabian Gulf? We Literally Stumbled on a Clue
An overcast stroll on a rocky, oil-stained shoreline is probably not your idea of a day at the beach. It didn’t bother us. We were wandering up and down Qatar’s coast to find the bones of recently dead marine mammals.
Digging Into the Past to Find Optimism for the Future
We know that story of what will happen in the coming decades and centuries... what's different about where we're going has to do with the rate of these changes and the biodiversity at hand.