Studying primate characteristics requires access to their skeletons, which can be costly and cause wear and tear to the ...

Sixty-six million years ago, at the end of the Cretaceous Period, an asteroid impact near the Yucat n Peninsula of Mexico triggered the extinction of all known non-bird dinosaurs. But for the early ...

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A new study in Nature describing a fossil of a nearly complete and intact bird skull from Antarctica is shedding light on the ...

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For those fascinated by ancient Earth, there is an amazing exhibit located right here in Albuquerque. The New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science is gearing up to open its Bradbury Stamm ...

Sometimes, nature's surprises come with wings. In a new study, scientists have pulled from a 35-year dataset to examine ...

Rock and dust samples brought back to Earth from the asteroid Bennu contain organic matter and a variety of minerals crucial to the emergence of life ...

The Natural History Museum in London revealed that the winning photograph of this year's wildlife contest depicted an ...

The story of the man-eating lions is fairly well-known, but one Field Museum expert went the extra mile to confirm a specific part of the story.

Antarctica may have been a refuge for early waterfowl ancestors, shielding them from the mass extinction that wiped out the dinosaurs.