Smithsonian Digitization Program Office News Today

This stovepipe top hat was nearly synonymous with Lincoln, and it was worn on a fateful day.

Smithsonian Gardens and the United States Botanic Garden present “The Future of Orchids: Conservation and Collaboration” now through April 28, filling the entire Kogod Courtyard of the Smithsonian American Art

"Future of Orchids: Conservation and Collaboration" comes to the Smithsonian American Art Museum's Kogod Courtyard starting on Saturday, January 27

Smithsonian Gardens and the United States Botanic Garden present “The Future of Orchids: Conservation and Collaboration” now through April 28, filling the entire Kogod Courtyard of the Smithsonian American Art

An Ichthyosaur graveyard, oyster middens and other headline-grabbing findings by scientists at the National Museum of Natural History

Today’s marine giants—such as blue and humpback whales—routinely make massive migrations across the ocean to breed and give birth in wa

An international scientific team investigates a rich fossil bed in Nevada's Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest's famed Berlin-Ichthyosaur State Park, where several 50-foot-long ichthyosaurs (Shonisaurus popularis) lay petrified in stone.

In May, the museum completed a groundbreaking digitization process that brought nearly four million pressed plants online.

An international research team examined a rich fossil bed in the renowned Berlin-Ichthyosaur State Park in Nevadas Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest, where many 50-foot-long ichthyosaurs (Shonisaurus popularis) lay petrified in stone.

Research suggests that nearly 200 million years before giant whales evolved, school bus-sized marine reptiles called ichthyosaurs may have been making similar migrations to breed and give birth in waters where predators are scarce.