How Smithsonian Fossil Preparators Are Re-Excavating a Tyrannosaur From Its Past on Display
This National Fossil Day, take an inside look at the effort to free the skeleton for research after more than a century in museum fossil halls
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Meet the Scientist Studying the Scary Speed of Spider Jaws
This Halloween, learn how arachnologist Hannah Wood uses the fossil record to track the evolution of these misunderstood critters
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Meet the Smithsonian’s Spookiest Staffers: Flesh-Eating Beetles
This Halloween season, learn how the National Museum of Natural History’s dermestid beetle colony transforms decaying animal carcasses into spotless skeletons.
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What a Drawerful of Dung Reveals About the Lives of Ground Sloths
For International Sloth Day, learn about the scientific clues preserved in petrified poop
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