Photos and Video

The National Native American Veterans Memorial

Prince Aghatise Erediauwa, representing the oba (king) of Benin Kingdom in Nigeria

Kaywin Feldman, Director of the National Gallery of Art, speaks at the Benin Bronzes Repatriation Ceremony at the National Museum of African Art

Lonnie G. Bunch III, Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution

Lai Mohammed, the Nigerian Minister of Information and Culture

Ngaire Blankenberg, Director of the National Museum of African Art

Eight of the 29 Benin bronzes were returned to the National Commission for Museums and Monuments in Nigeria on Tuesday, Oct. 11, 2022 in Washington.

Video reconstruction of Opisthiamimus gregori fossil skull

Fossil and interpretive drawing of Opisthiamimus gregori

Reconstruction of the skull of Opisthiamimus gregori

Fossil of Opisthiamimus gregori

Reconstruction of the skull of Opisthiamimus gregori

Members of the Zostera Experimental Network (ZEN) at a site in Japan.

Professor emeritus Jeanine Olsen of the University of Groningen, on an expedition at a ZEN site near Bodø, Norway. ZEN (Zostera Experimental Network) tracks eelgrass health at sites across the Northern Hemisphere

UC Davis biologist Jay Stachowicz (left) and postdoc Deanna Beatty on a sampling expedition in Tomales Bay, California

Smithsonian biologist Emmett Duffy on a research boat in Bocas Del Toro, Panama

Eelgrass in Japan's Lake Akkeshi

Encrusting bryozoans on panel

Solitary tunicates on underwater panel

Triggerfish

Diver Nestor Ortiz beside an experiment

Dr. Gail Ashton inspects marine invertebrates

Sunrise at the Global Change Research Wetland

Chunwu Zhu at the Smithsonian’s Global Change Research Wetland