The splendid deep-sea coral Iridogorgia sp. Deep-sea octocorals that are known to be bioluminescent. Credit: NOAA Office of Ocean Exploration and Research.
Study Focuses on an Ancient Group of Marine Invertebrates That Includes Soft Corals, Pushes Back the Previous Oldest Dated Example of Trait by Nearly 300 Million Years
Rendering of a 3D model of “The Last Supper” sculpture by Akili Ron Anderson, 1982; digitally recreated 2021.
Credit: Collection of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture, original artwork Copyright Akili Ron Anderson.
Mosul Cultural Museum Director Zaid Ghazi Saadallah (right) and Head of Conservation Saad Ahmed (left), examine the cenotaph of Imam Yahya b. Al Qasim (carved in 1239) as part of a joint Iraqi-Smithsonian survey of damage after ISIS occupation. Photo by Sebastian Meyer for the Smithsonian Institution.
The museum’s fossil specimen of Allosaurus fragilis is perched like a nesting bird guarding a clutch of fossilized eggs. Credit: USNM V 4734, Department of Paleobiology, Smithsonian Institution. Photo by Mike Gaudaur.
Displayed in the National Museum of Natural History’s Deep Time Fossil Hall, the Allosaurus Fossil Is Now the Name-Bearing Specimen for the Entire Species
The Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute welcomed two pygmy slow lorises babies March 21 to mother Naga and father Pabu in the Small Mammal House. Credit: Kara Ingraham, Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute
National Archives, Washington, DC | Transcript: Originally published in Indian Affairs: Laws and Treaties, compiled and edited by Charles J. Kappler, 1904; digitized by Oklahoma State University.
Visitors at the Anacostia Community Museum’s 2023 Honor the Earth Celebration plant the museum’s garden to start the spring season. Credit: Matilong Duma.
Part of a Five-Year Series of May Programming Sponsored by Bank of America That Celebrates Asian American and Native Hawaiian Pacific Islander Heritage Month
Unidentified Maker, Crazy Star; ca. 1920, Arthur, Illinois, cotton and wool; 74 x 63 ½ in. (detail), Collection of Faith and Stephen Brown, Promised gift to the Smithsonian American Art Museum.
Arjan Mann (right), a Smithsonian postdoctoral paleontologist and former Peter Buck Fellow, and Calvin So (left), a doctoral student at George Washington University, holding the fossil skull of Kermitops in front of the Kermit the Frog puppet display in the “Entertainment Nation” exhibition at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History.
Photo credit: James D. Tiller and James Di Loreto, Smithsonian. Fossil skull of Kermitops;USNM PAL 407585, Department of Paleobiology, Smithsonian Institution. Kermit the Frog puppet; 1994.0037.01, Gift of Jim Henson Productions. From the collections at National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution.
Do Ho Suh (b. 1962, South Korea) “Public Figures” (detail), 1998–2023, Jesmonite, aluminum, polyester resin. Credit: Courtesy the artist and Lehmann Maupin, New York, Seoul and London.
