With eyes like searchlights, a mouth of razor-sharp plates, and grasping appendages ready to snatch anything in reach, this ...

The human obsession with frightening creatures has given rise to ancient tales of dragons and werewolves, as well as to the ...

Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of George D. Pratt. The Smithsonian Institution came of age in the era of Manif ...

Scientists revisited tracks made by a shorebird, a lizard, a cat-like predator and some sort of large herbivore at what is ...

This fossil is 13 million years older than any ant fossil found before—and reveals a sophisticated predator that lived alongside the dinosaurs.

I grew up visiting the American Museum of Natural History regularly, and a recent visit convinced me that it's still the best museum in New York.

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