It’s one of DC’s coolest jobs: Uncovering fossils at the Smithsonian Natural History Museum
WTOP gets a look at how a “fossil preparator” uncovers the past at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History in D.C.
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15 Years Later, the National Museum of Natural History Is Still Asking What It Means to Be Human
Koch Hall of Human Origins,” which opened 15 years ago. Smithsonian's Human Origins Program. What does it mean to be human ...
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Fascinated by fossils, Minnesota man builds a small-town science museum bone by bone
Jim Pollard has loved fossil collecting since he was a kid. Now 70, he’s opened a natural history museum in a Blue Earth ...
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Penn Museum to return 19th century skull of Indigenous child to tribe leaders in Maine
The remains are part of the controversial Morton Collection, which was placed in storage in 2020 to reexamine unethical ...
A Native American adolescent’s skull at the Penn Museum moves closer home
The Museum has established the deceased's tribal heritage and is proceeding with the steps toward repatriating the remains.
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Oman Botanic Garden to host Natural History Museum
The Natural History Museum in Muscat will be shifted from its current location to the upcoming Oman Botanic Garden, the ...
'You don't just throw them in a box.' Archaeologists and Indigenous scholars call for better care of animal remains
Chance Ward began opening boxes of horse remains that had been shipped to the University of Colorado Museum of Natural History from other institutions around the country. What he saw made his heart ...
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Archaeologists discover oldest known partial face fossil of human ancestor in western Europe
Scientists report that a fossil of a partial face from a early human ancestor in Spain is between 1.1 and 1.4 million years ...
Oldest known partial face fossil of a human ancestor in western Europe is uncovered
Scientists report that a fossil of a partial face from a early human ancestor in Spain is between 1.1 and 1.4 million years ...
Cleveland Museum of Natural History researchers propose new hypothesis for the origin of stone tools
Sharp stone technology chipped over three million years allowed early humans to exploit animal and plant food resources, which in turn played a large role in increasing human brain size and ...