Not content with a diet of old leaves, some worm species actually eat bones. A new study has now traced the ancient ancestors ...

A tiny, overlooked wrist bone called the pisiform may have played a pivotal role in bird flight and it turns out it evolved ...

Officials stumbled upon a 67-million-year-old dinosaur bone beneath the Denver Museum of Nature and Science during a drilling project, the DMNS announced on Wednesday.

A new study reveals hidden bone structures that may hold the key to the evolutionary success of goannas in Australia.

Paleontologists know the bone bed as PFV 393. The late fossil preparator Bill Amaral found the site in 2011 on a field trip ...

New York's American Museum of Natural History plans to improve its stewardship of thousands of human remains in its collection, which includes the bones of Native Americans and enslaved Black people.

A drilling project at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science has unearthed a dinosaur fossil dating back 70 million years.

Paleobiologists at the Smithsonian study fossil animals, plants, and single-celled organisms to understand the biological and environmental history of Earth.The National Fossil Collection at the ...

Natural history museums may be beloved for their dino bones and sparkling gems, but they come freighted with histories that are — to put it mildly — awkward. When the American Museum of ...

For decades, Austin’s only natural history museum limped along with a bare-bones staff—from 2016 to 2020, it had just three full-time employees—and increasingly outdated exhibits, even as it ...