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

Koch Hall of Human Origins,” which opened 15 years ago. Smithsonian's Human Origins Program. What does it mean to be human ...

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

A new book highlights the beautiful work of Jay Matternes, an accomplished artist who drew everything from mammoths to early ...

Early humans were regularly using animal bones to make cutting tools 1.5 million years ago. A newly discovered cache of 27 carved and sharpened bones from elephants and hippos ...

On January 31, 1961, a chimpanzee named Ham became the first great ape to travel to space ... of his remains were studied for research, his bones were laid to rest at the New Mexico Museum of Space ...

LAWRENCE, Kan. (WIBW) - The KU Natural History Museum received a historic contribution to help preserve one of its most important exhibits. According to the university, Tom and Jan Hardy ...

The Natural History Museum Ice Rink has now closed. After an incredible 16 years of ice skating at the Museum, the five-acre gardens on which the rink used to sit have now been transformed into a hub ...

Song says the oracle bones from Tianjin Museum stand out not only because they belong to the early unearthed batch, but because they are large with many words and diversified content related to ...

His many deeds were recorded on oracle bones and passed on to modern society, says Zhang. "We want to show the best stories of Wu Ding from the oracle bones he left behind," says Zhang.

An ancient animal bone discovered in a quarry about 20 years ago has been donated to a museum. The bone from a palaeoloxodon - an extinct animal also known as a straight-tusked elephant which is ...