A serendipitous find in the National Museum of Natural History’s collections yielded just the second known specimen of a ...

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On Washington's National Mall, in a vast neoclassical palace next to the National Gallery of Art, the Smithsonian National ...

Diana is what’s known as a “fossil preparator,” working in full view of the public inside the oblong, glass-enclosed FossiLab at D.C.’s Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History ...