New advances in DNA testing and the help of a Texas forensic lab allowed the Grays Harbor County Coroner’s Office to ...
What if a single Renaissance drawing could reveal not just who made it, but the biological traces of Leonardo da Vinci ...
This fossil is 13 million years older than any ant fossil found before—and reveals a sophisticated predator that lived alongside the dinosaurs. The hell ant existed over 100 million years ago, ...
The Pokémon Fossil Museum is traveling from Japan to North America for the first time next year The special exhibition compares prehistoric Pokémon to their real world counterparts It will open at the ...
A funding crisis at the Museum of the Earth and the Paleontological Research Institution in Ithaca, N.Y., could scatter priceless specimens and end nearly a century of pioneering research. A fossil of ...
Map showing potential migration routes of the human ancestor, Homo erectus, in Africa, Europe and Asia during the early Pleistocene. Key fossils of Homo erectus and the earlier Homo habilis species ...
The tallest plants alive today can grow to over 100 meters tall. But they evolved from ancestors that were just a few centimeters high. Exactly how they got so big is uncertain, but new research on a ...
Ancient bees built nests in the hollows of rodent skulls, a new study suggests L. Viñola López et al., Royal Society Open Science, 2025 under CC BY 4.0 People often appreciate fossils for the insights ...
Scientists have digitally reconstructed the face of a 1.5-million-year-old Homo erectus fossil from Ethiopia, uncovering an unexpectedly primitive appearance. While its braincase fits with classic ...
A new study led by UCC paleontologists discovered that frogs have conserved their ecology in the last 45 million years. The research is published in the journal iScience. Dr. Daniel Falk, together ...
The growth plates, known as specimens UAMN3760 and UAMN3724, were discovered near Fairbanks in the early 1950s. University of Alaska Museum of the North In the early 1950s, naturalist Otto Geist was ...