But look up for a moment, and you catch a glimpse of it: the Museum of Zoology’s twenty-one metre Fin Whale skeleton, arching ...

As the sun shone on an unusually warm day at the end of October, Emma Meadley Dunphy took one final, emotional stroll through ...

On Sunday, the National History Museum will open NHM Commons, its newest wing. The community hub features Gnatalie, a 70-foot ...

Brazil has just identified a new species of fossilized bird from the Late Cretaceous period. Named Navaornis hestiae, it was ...

NASA’s Artemis programme will send the first woman and the next man to the Moon. By using advanced technology, they will ...

Perhaps most importantly, Lucy’s discovery foreshadowed a series of fossil finds that filled in the scientific picture of her species. By 1978, enough evidence had accumulated to establish Lucy as the ...

Stories on the discovery of vital fluid-transport systems in the human body are among the winners of the 2024 AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Awards. Winning journalists also did immersive stories on ...

The fossil remains of the unique hominid were found in Ethiopia in 1974, traveled around the world, were the subject of ...

Lucy’s discovery transformed our understanding of human origins. Don Johanson, who unearthed the Australopithecus afarensis ...

An image of the Altamura Man skeleton surrounded by circular concretions. (Right) A conceptual image — not the Altamura Man — ...

Archaeologists first made the grim discovery in 2022 and have been studying the remains to understand why she and others were ...

Found in a cremation cemetery in Belgium, the skeleton includes bones dating to the Neolithic period and a Roman-era skull, ...