With its mind-boggling holdings of artifacts and specimens from around the globe, the American Museum of Natural History, founded in 1869, tells nothing less than the story of creation ...

Jim Pollard has loved fossil collecting since he was a kid. Now 70, he’s opened a natural history museum in a Blue Earth ...

Studies of the horns, spikes, plates and clubs of dinosaurs could help settle a long-standing debate over their function ...

This museum has an interesting way of tracing America's history – via signage. At the American Sign Museum, you'll find everything from a Phillips 66 sign to neon bar signs to old movie posters ...

Catherine Parker Situated in Hermann Park and the Museum District, near the Houston Zoo, the Museum of Fine Arts and the Holocaust Museum Houston, the Houston Museum of Natural Science features ...

History told by the people who were there. For nine minutes every weekday, Witness History takes you back to moments which have shaped our world. Show more Eye-witness accounts brought to life by ...

Millions of years ago, Los Angeles was underwater, a vast prehistoric sea teeming with creatures that largely don't exist ...

In a wind-swept stretch of Morocco’s Middle Atlas Mountains, paleontologists digging through Jurassic-era stone have ...

This word has appeared in 81 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year. Can you use it in a sentence? By The Learning Network This word has appeared in 90 articles on NYTimes.com in the past year ...

Natural products are small molecules produced naturally by any organism including primary and secondary metabolites. They include very small molecules, such as urea, and complex structures, such ...

Joshua Riibe, a college senior, has returned home after being questioned in the Dominican Republic about the disappearance of University of Pittsburgh student Sudiksha Konanki, who is believed to ...

In American understanding, the Cold War was an ideological confrontation ... Anthony Wilks traces the connections between the events of Hobsbawm’s life and the history he told, from his teenage years ...