Paleontologists unearthed the fossil in Mongolia’s Gobi Desert, and the find is unique because of a sheath preserved on one ...

WTOP gets a look at how a “fossil preparator” uncovers the past at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History in D.C.

FISHERSVILLE, Va. ( WHSV /Gray News) -A fossil found by a landowner in Virginia has left even the Smithsonian completely ...

Paleontologists hope that an amber-like material, made with living tree resin, will shed light on the prehistoric ...

Chemical analysis suggests the 400-million-year-old fossil Prototaxites was neither plant, animal or fungus – hinting at a ...

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

Remarkable new fossils from Swartkrans Cave reveal that a prehistoric relative of humans was also extremely small and ...

On Thursday, March 20, Rowan held a ribbon cutting for the museum named by Smithsonian Magazine one of its top 10 most ...

Is it a mushroom, a pinecone or something out of this world? A fossil in Fishersville has left one landowner and the ...

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

Million-year-old face fossil sheds new light on ancient human migrations - Scientists say a fossil of a partial face from a ...