Description: In the early years of the National Museum of Natural History’s Insect Zoo, staff members, volunteers and their family ventured out to local field, streams and even monuments to collect specimens.
Description: Investigating digital files from the 1980s turns up software that let people play matchmaker–for endangered species. Let’s see where this leads.
Description: Each week, the Archives features a woman who has been a groundbreaker at the Smithsonian, past or present, in a series titled Wonderful Women Wednesday.
Description: Before Congress created the National Zoo, the Smithsonian's Department of Living Animals kept it’s collection of animals behind the Castle.
Description: Smithsonian National Zoo's Associate Director for Animal Care Sciences, Dr. Brandie Smith, oversees the care and of 3,000 animals and ensures the genetic diversity of the species living in zoos. #Groundbreaker