Nick Pyenson first fell in love with natural history museums as a child, growing up in Montreal when his parents would take him to McGill University’s Redpath Museum and Harvard’s Museum of ...

In February 2015, we are partnering with the Field Book Project, Smithsonian Institution Archives, Smithsonian Libraries, and NMNH staff to transcribe the field notes and correspondence of Frederick ...

Shane meets Nick Pyenson, a biologist studying ancient and living whales. Shane steps into a land of giants at the to meet Nick Pyenson, a biologist who studies ancient (and living) whales, to find ...

An overcast stroll on a rocky, oil-stained shoreline is probably not your idea of a day at the beach. It didn’t bother us. We were wandering up and down Qatar’s coast to find the bones of recently ...

KELL, MSRLSI, STRI copies gift of Nick Pyenson. KELL, MSRLSI, STRI copies signed by author. "Whales are among the largest, most intelligent, deepest diving species to have ever lived on our planet.

OREGON, USA — One woman made a very rare and unique discovery while walking along the beach near Newport: a more than 20-million-year-old fossil. The fossil was some teeth from a Desmostylian, which ...

OREGON, USA — One woman made a very rare and unique discovery while walking along the beach near Newport: a more than 20-million-year-old fossil. The fossil was some teeth from a Desmostylian, which ...

Nick Pyenson is the Curator of Fossil Marine mammals, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution. MSRLSI copy 39088019484302 Gift of Author. MSRLSI copy 39088019484302 Signed by ...