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

Preserved in tan stone, the fossil of Mirasaura included much of the ancient reptile’s skeleton and a feather-like fan that ...

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

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

News A New York Museum’s House of Bones The American Museum of Natural History holds 12,000 bodies — but they don’t want you to know whose. Erin L. Thompson October 15, 2023 ...

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

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

A pivotal wrist bone in birds appears earlier in theropods. This could shift views on how flight evolved. An analysis of two ...

Smithsonian scientists and researchers work to understand the natural history of Earth. They explore how the Earth and its inhabitants have changed and adapted over time. They explore questions about ...

Museum officials uncovered a rare Cretaceous dinosaur bone 750 feet beneath their Denver parking lot, potentially the city's deepest fossil discovery yet.

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.

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museum limped along with a bare-bones staff—from 2016 to 2020, it had just three full-time employees—and increasingly outdated exhibits, even as it ...