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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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What a Drawerful of Dung Reveals About the Lives of Ground Sloths

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How Smithsonian Fossil Preparators Are Re-Excavating a Tyrannosaur From Its Past on Display

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Get Up Close With Bat Specimens and More Natural History Programs This October

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Dino-Sore: Smithsonian Paleontologist Diagnoses Ancient Ailments in the Museum’s Dinosaurs

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Smithsonian Scientists Discover One of the Earliest Mammal Ancestors That Ate Its Veggies

In an aerial shot of the desert, a dry lakebed is surrounded by swaths of white salt flats.

Clay-Encrusted Microbes Provide Clues to How Early Life Developed on Earth and Potentially Mars

A large research vessel with a cell tower on top sails across a dark blue stretch of ocean that expands towards a paler blue sky along the horizon.

Smithsonian Scientists Unearth Signs of an Ancient Climate Calamity Buried Beneath the Seafloor

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2022 in Review: Smithsonian Staff Sifts Through an Ocean of Fossils

A man wearing a white hard hat, neon vest, dark gray pants and yellow gloves sits in a pit of dark rock. Just below his knees is a boulder with a piece of lighter gray fossil sticking out of the top.

Meet the Smithsonian Director Bringing a Deep Time Perspective to the International Climate Discussion

A tan-colored skull and spine sticks out of a sandy surface. The jaws of the elongated skull are studded with sharp teeth that are angled at the viewer.

This November, Be Thankful for Specialty Spirits and Ancient Sea Monsters

A tan woolly mammoth skeleton facing left bends its front legs and tilts its tusks towards the bottom of the frame.

Celebrate Fabulous Fossils and More Natural History Programs This October

An orange and tan Megalodon hangs over the museum's food court with its supersized mouth agape.

Diving with Sharks Through Deep Time

A variety of dark gray to black magnetofossils shaped like ovals, cubes and needles cluster around each other.

Meet the Scientist Who Uses Magnetic Fossils to Navigate Changing Oceans

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Ancient Pollen Offers Clues to How Plants Adapted to Climate Change in the Past — and Potentially the Future

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What Mummified Shrews and Giant Hornets Reveal About Biodiversity

A small bonfire burns in the foreground with a sunset in the background.

Explore How Fire Shaped Human Evolution and More Natural History Programs This March

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What's Next for the 1.2 Million Prehistoric Fossils Now at Smithsonian

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The Oldest Airborne Vertebrate Animal Was a Reptile With 'Weird' Wings

Fossil plants reveal information about the temperature and precipitation of past climates. Scientists use what they learn from fossil plants to inform their research on modern climate change (USNM PAL 606436, Smithsonian)

What Fossil Plants Reveal About Climate Change

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Deck the Halls With Nature Crafts and More Natural History Programs This December

Meet the Archaeologist Leading the Museum’s Repatriation Efforts

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