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 ...

carried out this work as part of a project supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation. The results obtained make it ...

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 ...

Since its discovery in 1993, the Altamura Man, dating back at least 130,000 years, has continued to captivate scientists and ...

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