The National Museum of Natural History recently spruced up its iconic African elephant mount, which has greeted visitors since 1959 Jack Tamisiea A team of specialists gently blows dust off of the ...

An African elephant arrived at the Musuem in 1907 ... Despite the opposition, Owen won the battle and the Natural History Museum finally opened in 1881. The building’s decorative and Romanesque style, ...

A fossilized elephant skull discovered in northern ... the British Museum, and the Natural History Museum in London. The ...

Published 1827-1838, it's considered one of the great natural history books in status ... Elephant by name, elephant by nature, it's also the heaviest book in the Museum's library, weighing in at a ...

Deep inside the American Museum of Natural History in New York City lies the ... Was he really the biggest elephant in the world? How did he die? And was he suffering from tuberculosis?