Scientists say they have solved the mystery of the Burtele foot, a set of 3.4 million-year-old bones found in Ethiopia in 2009. The fossils, along with others unearthed more recently, have now been ...

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

Barry Hughes, a volunteer in the Condon Fossil Collection, opens a drawer containing the head of a saber-tooth tiger and ...

In 1890, Akeley made a diorama of a muskrat habitat, complete with a background mural. This was the world's first museum habitat diorama and the beginning of the “Milwaukee Style,” the revolutionary ...

If you thought that crocodiles were menacing enough, be glad that you didn’t live in Arizona some 225–201 million years ...

A Triceratops named “Trey” has been a popular exhibit at the Wyoming Dinosaur Center in Thermopolis for 30 years. Now on the auction block, it has ...

Scientist and dinosaur enthusiast from around the world are gathering in Rockford this weekend for the Burpee Museum of ...

After years of analysis, the animal turned out to be an entirely new species — one that lived millions of years longer than ...

Scientists long believed stem tetrapods largely disappeared after a major ecological event known as the Carboniferous Rainforest Collapse. That event caused widespread destruction of tropical forests ...

Tanyka broke that mold entirely. Its lower jaw twisted outward from back to front. Some of its teeth pointed outward and sideways, not toward the opposing jaw but off to the side. Lining the inside of ...

The pygmy long-fingered possum and the ring-tailed glider, until now known only through fossils, have been rediscovered.

The National Museum of Natural History commissioned Missouri artist Gary Staab for a commemoration of the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. Staab sculpted three bison on a heroic ...