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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The Murder Mystery Linking a Bird Specimen at the National Museum of Natural History to the Mysterious Death of an Arctic Explorer
In 1871, a naturalist aboard the U.S.S. Polaris collected scientific specimens — and possibly poisoned the ship’s captain
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This Fall at the Museum: Fossils, Fossils and More Fossils!
There are also events about mushrooms, bats and much more at the National Museum of Natural History in September and October
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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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