The National Aquarium facility in downtown Washington is closing. The little-known aquarium has been around since the 1930s in the basement of the Commerce Department at 14th Street and Pennsylvania ...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The National Aquarium says it will close its Washington branch in the fall. Officials announced Thursday that renovations at the Department of Commerce building that the aquarium ...

What’s a shark to do when it has lived in one tank for years, tucked inside a small museum, surrounded by its fellow species — a swell shark, a horn shark, a leopard shark and juvenile chain catsharks ...