Oil prices are spiking again, this time because of the war unfolding in the Middle East. What would happen, however, if we could end our reliance on oil for good? People have been ...

“Ankle bones of Purgatorius exhibit features that indicate it lived in trees, so we initially thought its absence south of Montana could be related to the sweeping devastation of forests from the ...

How a collection of London pigeons and Galápagos mockingbirds provided the receipts for Darwin’s biggest ideas.

If your bathtub is leaking and water is everywhere, do you start mopping the floor or do you first turn off the tap?” That’s the question Toronto-born “artivist” Benjamin Von Wong poses through his ...

These shaggy haired herbivores are cousins to the modern day Asian elephant. Weighing in at 5.44 metric tons and around 3 to 4 meters (11 to 13 feet) tall, they were similar in size to the African ...

The Petersen Rock Garden & Museum in Redmond is proof that one person’s obsession can become everyone else’s treasure, and ...

These North Carolina museums are dedicated to things so weird you'll think someone's pranking you until you walk inside and see it's real.

The Paterson Museum in Paterson, New Jersey is exactly that kind of revelation, packed with more surprises than your grandmother’s attic and infinitely more organized. Let’s be honest, when someone ...

For more than a century, stories have circulated about unusually large human skeletons discovered in ancient burial sites. Old newspaper reports and historical accounts describe massive bones that ...

A 7.2-million-year-old femur found in Bulgaria reveals early signs of upright walking and reopens the debate on human origins.

A rare looping dinosaur trackway in Colorado reveals new clues about sauropod movement and hints that the massive animal may have walked with a limp.

A nearly complete dinosaur skeleton discovered in Patagonia is helping scientists crack the mystery of alvarezsaurs, a bizarre group of bird-like dinosaurs. The fossil of Alnashetri cerropoliciensis ...