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Media Contact

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Nearly Half of Popular Tropical Plant Group Related to Birds-of-Paradise and Bananas Are Threatened With Extinction
News Release
03.07.2025
Natural History Museum Research News
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Smithsonian Acquires One of the World’s Largest “Fancy Red” Diamonds
News Release
02.18.2025
Natural History Museum Exhibitions New Acquisitions
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Traces of Ancient Brine Discovered on the Asteroid Bennu Contain Minerals Crucial to Life
News Release
01.29.2025
Natural History Museum Research News
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Fossil Footprints Reveal That Two Early Human Relatives Lived on the Same Landscape 1.5 Million Years Ago
News Release
11.28.2024
Natural History Museum Research News
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Ant Agriculture Began 66 Million Years Ago in the Aftermath of the Asteroid That Doomed the Dinosaurs
News Release
10.03.2024
Natural History Museum Research News
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Smithsonian and NASA Partner to Open Exhibition Exploring Ever-Changing Earth from Space and on the Ground
News Release
09.24.2024
Natural History Museum Exhibitions
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New Study Charts How Earth’s Global Temperature Has Drastically Changed Over the Past 485 Million Years, Driven by Carbon Dioxide
News Release
09.19.2024
Natural History Museum Research News
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Smithsonian Scientists Devise Method To Secure Earth’s Biodiversity on the Moon
News Release
07.31.2024
Air and Space Museum National Zoo & SCBI Natural History Museum Research News
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New Study Supports Stable Mantle Chemistry Dating Back to Earth’s Early Geologic History and Over Its Prodigious Evolution
News Release
07.24.2024
Natural History Museum Research News
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Bioluminescence First Evolved in Animals at Least 540 Million Years Ago
News Release
04.23.2024
Natural History Museum Research News
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Just Our Type: Smithsonian’s Dinosaur Skeleton Becomes the Scientific Standard for Prehistoric Predator
News Release
04.05.2024
Natural History Museum Research News
Two men stand beside green felt puppet, Kermit.
Researchers Name Prehistoric Amphibian Ancestor Discovered in Smithsonian Collection After Kermit the Frog
News Release
03.21.2024
Natural History Museum Research News

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