Mixodectes pungens, a species of small mammal that inhabited western North America in the early Paleocene, was a mystery. What little was known about them had been mostly gleaned from analyzing ...

The Triassic is one of the most important periods in the evolution of life on Earth. After one of the greatest mass ...

The KU Natural History Museum received a historic contribution to help preserve one of its most important exhibits.

The bone tools date from more than a million years before our species, Homo sapiens, arose around 300,000 years ago.

Even when we think we know everything, or that we think we have a grasp on what species occur in our environment, we don’t,” ...

Chance Ward began opening boxes of horse remains that had been shipped to the University of Colorado Museum of Natural ...

Nearly half of Heliconia species—tropical plants vital to rainforest ecosystems—are at risk of extinction, according to new ...

The Cape Cod Museum of Natural History in Brewster will conduct a series of bird walks and talks hosted by museum field guide Karl Fryzel on Wednesdays, March 19, April ...

BREWSTER — The Cape Cod Museum of Natural History will host a presentation on cicadas this spring. According to a community ...

Julie Averbach has written a book celebrating the displays, the murals and the installations at the grocery store chain.

The Antarctic Meteorite Collection at the National Institute of Polar Research (NIPR) in Japan has been recognized as a ...