It’s the late Jurassic Period in the super continent of Laurasia, some 85 million years into the reign of the dinosaurs. The ...

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Its symbolism builds on thousands of years of folklore and Chinese history. And, as the only mythological animal ... Keith Wilson, curator of ancient Chinese art at the Smithsonian’s National Museum ...

Staffers at the Dorchester County Historical Society in Maryland were baffled by the unusual machine, so they asked the ...

However, dinosaurs were only established as a group in the 1840s and no one was yet thinking about dinosaur eggs. As this ...

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"The Grand Canyon is an epic Rosetta Stone for geology," Denver Museum of Nature and Science geologist James Hagadorn said.

The morning after the election, the historian discussed some books that shed light on the precedents for our fractured ...

Alan Bernstein of Pleasant Ridge will screen his documentary "When We Went Mad!" on Thursday night at the Redford Theatre in ...

This early use paved the way for future wheel-based rotational innovations, key advancements that revolutionized human ...

The Smithsonian Institution is a parent company of the Wilson ... It houses the Cold War International History Project.