https://www.smithsonianmag.com/rss/blog/national-museum-of-natural-history/RSS feed for National Museum of Natural HistoryenThu, 06 Mar 2025 15:00:00 +0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/blogs/national-museum-of-natural-history/2025/03/06/meet-the-scientist-studying-fossil-snapshots-of-ancient-insect-life/Paleobiologist Scott Lakeram analyzes 300-million-year-old coal ball fossils to reveal prehistoric plant-insect interactions frozen in timeThu, 06 Mar 2025 15:00:00 +0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/blogs/national-museum-of-natural-history/2025/03/03/national-museum-of-natural-history-scientists-discover-that-ancient-insects-perfected-their-plant-palates-165-million-years-ago/The findings reveal that insects developed modern patterns of herbivory long before flowering plants flourished, upending a long-held hypothesisMon, 03 Mar 2025 17:00:00 +0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/blogs/national-museum-of-natural-history/2025/02/25/this-invasive-species-awareness-week-learn-how-museum-researchers-track-the-rogue-wildlife-infiltrating-american-ecosystems/From a beautiful fish that’s eating the Caribbean to a tiny bivalve with a huge impact, North America’s most notorious introduced species have reshaped the continent’s ecosystemsTue, 25 Feb 2025 17:00:00 +0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/blogs/national-museum-of-natural-history/2025/02/11/meet-sylvia-earle-the-trailblazing-marine-biologist-who-has-spent-her-career-giving-algae-their-long-deserved-due/For International Women and Girls in Science Day, the museum’s Ocean Portal spoke with “Her Deepness” about science, seaweed and the planet’s futureTue, 11 Feb 2025 21:10:00 +0000https://www.smithsonianmag.com/blogs/national-museum-of-natural-history/2025/01/29/this-february-meet-the-women-transforming-science-at-the-national-museum-of-natural-history/Mark your calendar for the Mother Tongue Film Festival and events covering everything from odd oceanic couples to resilient deerWed, 29 Jan 2025 20:40:00 +0000