The incredibly popular Pokémon Fossil Museum is coming to the United States in May 2026.  This news was announced last Spring ...

Barry Norbeck donated thousands of documented fossil shells to the Calvert Marine Museum on Jan. 9, 2026, enhancing its Miocene collection with material from now-inaccessible sites along Calvert ...

Researchers have uncovered compelling evidence that Neanderthals repeatedly deposited horned animal skulls in a Spanish cave over thousands of years, suggesting a culturally transmitted ritual ...

A fascinating fossil discovery in West Texas has revealed a surprising new range for an ancient plant-eating dinosaur.

Oxygen isotopes data enable researchers to look far back into the geologic past and reconstruct the climate of the past. In ...

Jawbones and other remains, similar to specimens found in Europe, were dated to 773,000 years and help close a gap in ...

In the research, published Wednesday (Jan. 7) in the journal Nature, a team of Moroccan and French researchers detailed their ...

A team of anthropologists recently examined a collection of fossil hominin jawbones, teeth, and vertebrae that belong to ...

The organization would have been forced to split up and send away one of the largest fossil collections in the country.

The Natural History Museum of Denmark houses a unique collection of 70,000 pieces of amber from various time periods.

Side view of NMNH's newly acquired Pachycephalosaurus skull, which is a rare, nearly complete specimen James D. Tiller and Phillip R. Lee / Smithsonian Institution Millions of years ago, an ...

The recently acquired skull of the dome-headed dinosaur Pachycephalosaurus. USNM PAL 803273, Department of Paleobiology, Smithsonian Institution. Gift of Eric and Wendy Schmidt. Photo by James D.