Australia's forest ecosystems, renowned for their extraordinary diversity of rare plants and animals, also play a vital role in mitigating climate change by absorbing and storing carbon. However, ...

A broken tooth lodged deep in bone can outlast the animal that lost it. In two whale skulls from Belgium, those fragments ...

TOPEKA (KSNT) – Fossils are everywhere in Kansas but there are some places where your chances of finding a link to the past are greater than others. The Sunflower State is home to numerous types of ...

Benjamin holds a Master's degree in anthropology from University College London and has previously worked in the fields of psychedelic neuroscience and mental health. Benjamin holds a Master's degree ...

Can a skeleton be a storyteller? When it comes to dinosaur bones, the answer is yes — if you know how to listen! Prehistoric fossils are a wealth of critical scientific information. Everything from ...

A sculptor's rendering of "Lucy," Australopithecus afarensis, at the Houston Museum of Natural Science on August 28, 2007. Dave Einsel / Getty Images About 3.2 million years ago, among the prehistoric ...

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Sixty-five miles southwest of Chicago, a small hill that looks like a prop from an Indiana Jones movie breaks up the flat, monotone landscape. Consisting of shale, sandstone and rocks from an old coal ...

In the wrap-up of “Objects of Wonder,” hundreds of the museum’s most treasured specimens are returning to the collection Jack Tamisiea “Objects of Wonder” features some of the museum’s most ...

The 20,000-year-old fossilized bones of "Ushikawa Man," thought to be some of Japan's most ancient human fossils, are not what scientists believed they were, new research finds. Instead, they are the ...