In honor of Charles Darwin’s 215th birthday, meet the only original Darwin specimen in North America Naomi Greenberg This shorebird specimen in the museum’s Division of Birds was collected by Charles ...

I went behind the scenes at the Smithsonian Museum, which privately stores over 600,000 preserved birds. Collections Manager Chris Milensky shows the Bird Division's skins collection at the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. GrrlScientist writes about evolution, ecology, behavior and health. This article is more than 8 years old. Century-old museum bird ...

Under a cracked and leaky ceiling, Andres Cuervo works on a colorful, dead hummingbird for the ornithological collection of the National University of Colombia, the country with more bird species than ...

The Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History historic bird collections was critical in determining that the 1918 influenza pandemic that killed 20 million to 40 million people worldwide did ...

Containing specimens from different locations, sometimes spanning across centuries, museum collections can teach us a lot about how some animals are built and how we can protect them. Properly labeled ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Drawers of birds and Smithsonian scientist Roxie Laybourne at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History.Chip ...