The museum on the former site of the Chart House restaurant will be modern and unlike most museums, its backers say.

Imagine seeing a bat the size of a bumblebee or a dinosaur-eating mammal or an animal that has a sixth sense to detect electrical current. How about getting up close to the largest land mammal that ...

Scientists at the American Museum of Natural History investigated old specimens that had been at the museum for decades and ...

Take a dive into the museum’s marine mammal collection and learn how a rare North American whale is racing against extinction Emma Saaty This plate of baleen came from the critically endangered Rice’s ...

This media is in the public domain (free of copyright restrictions). You can copy, modify, and distribute this work without contacting the Smithsonian. For more information, visit the Smithsonian's ...

DENVER (KDVR) — Researchers at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science discovered a new mammal species from 65 million years ago. A fossil of a skull and jaws of the newly discovered species were ...

It's a discovery 65 million years in the making. Researchers at Denver Museum of Nature and Science discovered a new mammal species in Corral Bluffs east of Colorado Springs. What makes the discovery ...

MISSOULA, Mont. — It's a low-key museum that doesn't get a lot of public attention. It's possible you may never have heard of it. But the Philip L. Wright Zoological Museum at the University of ...

Albert Ervin, head of member services at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences, talks with Elizabeth Gardner about extreme mammals on display at the museum. Albert Ervin, head of member ...

MISSOULA, Mont. — It's a low-key museum that doesn't get a lot of public attention. It's possible you may never have heard of it. But the Philip L. Wright Zoological Museum at the University of ...