History

Salisbury steak TV dinner

Salisbury Steak: Civil War Health Food

After 30 years of research Dr. Salisbury finally published his ideas, setting off one of the earliest American fad diets

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A Visit to Dinosaur Court

See a gallery of images from a monument to a time when naturalists were only just beginning to understand prehistoric creatures

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The File Inside the Cake: True Tales of Prison Escapes

Jailbirds really have tried to fly the coop by way of contraband—files, handsaws and even guns—hidden inside baked goods

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Hidden Dinosaurs and Confusing Teeth

After many false starts, scientists finally understood the first fossils of horned dinosaurs

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The Joys of Jell-O

If you're feeling creative and adventurous and want to mount a Jell-O-based art project, you need to know a few things about how the stuff works

A line-drawing of the Triceratops known as "Raymond."

Triceratops: An A+ Dinosaur

Paleontologists have recently learned how these three-horned dinosaurs fought, grew up and socialized

A hump-backed Spinosaurus, restored by R.E. Johnson and from Bailey 1997.

Was Spinosaurus a Bison-Backed Dinosaur?

Spinosaurus and Ouranosaurus were fundamentally different, and they remain among the most bizarre dinosaurs yet discovered

A Daily Food Guide. This graphic illustrates the four food group system that preceded the food pyramid model.

USDA Demolishing the Food Pyramid

USDA began offering nutritional advice in 1894. We had 12 food groups in the 1930s, seven in the 1940s, four in the 1950s, then a pyramid and now a plate

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June Anniversaries

Momentous or Merely Memorable

The reconstructed skeleton of "Brontosaurus" from W.D. Matthew's 1915 book Dinosaurs.

Two Views on How to Make a Baby Sauropod

It took a long time—and a new understanding of sauropod lifestyles—to figure out whether they laid eggs or gave birth to live young

The horns of Marsh's Bison alticornis, now recognized as those of a ceratopsian dinosaur.

When Triceratops Was a Giant Bison

The giant with the "three-horned face" was originally mistaken for a very different creature

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The Hamburger: A Quintessential American Meal

The hamburger is a part of our national identity. But how did the U.S. come to "own" the little beef cake sandwiches?

Idaho Potato Museum

Five Funky Food Museums

Here's a quick look at five funky food museums worth visiting, including ones devoted to SPAM, mustard and Pez

Pulp wood (but not the kind that may appear in your cheese or bread).

The Wood in Your Food

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The Diplodocus Tripod

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A Delayed Tyrannosaurus Showdown

O.C. Marsh's conception of an eight-spiked Stegosaurus

The Myth of the Eight-Spiked Stegosaurus

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Bringing Dinosaurs Up to Speed

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The Birth of Brunch: Where Did This Meal Come From Anyway?

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A 1980s Look at Smithsonian Dinosaurs

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