The museum hopes that after learning about the planet’s prehistoric past, people will do more to preserve Earth’s future.

An extremely rare fossil of an ancient venomous scorpion was unearthed at China's Jehol Biota and was a key species in the ...

Our planet’s first known mass extinction happened about 440 million years ago. Species diversity on Earth had been increasing ...

Prehistoric insects encased in amber reveal a terrifying evolutionary road that dead-ended sometime after the mid-Cretaceous period. After examining multiple roughly 99-million-year-old specimens ...

They show the gritty side of dinosaur life,” Lacovara said. “Dinosaurs were authentic beings that lived under their own ...

Mar. 19, 2025 — To understand why kangaroos hop -- a rarity among animals -- researchers have studied the musky rat-kangaroo (Hypsiprymnodon moschatus), a diminutive marsupial that weighs only ...

They found that when birds evolve ... Birds Have Developed Complex Brains Independently from Mammals Feb. 13, 2025 — New research has revealed that birds, reptiles, and mammals have developed ...

Life cycles are as varied and diverse as life on Earth. Whether it's a mammal, like the arctic fox, or a bird, or a plant or an insect, different groups of organisms all have different kinds of ...