A dinosaur that puzzled researchers thanks to the incredibly puzzling design of its body finally has its place in history thanks to a team of scientists from Cambridge and the Natural History Museum in London. The Chilesaurus, whichShow More Summary
We do love a good museum.
A research team from the Natural History Museum in London team has found evidence of ritual cannibalism on 15,000-year-old skeletal remains. The study focused on a single bone, a radius (the large bone of the forearm) that was unearthed in 1987 from Gough’s Cave, a limestone cave in Cheddar Gorge, Somerset, southwestern England, which has […]
Sometimes, it pays to rediscover what’s already under your nose. I’ve been umpteen times to the Natural History Museum but…
The American Museum of Natural History teased reporters with the promise of a "special scientific announcement" about Titanosaur this week, its newest and tallest dinosaur fossil. I assumed that the big reveal would be that the museum...Show More Summary
The massive Titanosaur at the American Museum of Natural History finally has a name: Patagotitan mayorum.
A study by the University of Liverpool, in collaboration with the Natural History Museum, has found that ants are responsible for moving more than half of food resources from the rainforest floor, playing a key role in maintaining a healthy ecosystem.
Smithsonian Libraries knows that narwhals are awesomely magical creatures. Narwhals are kinda still magic, right? If you are in the DC area (or plan to visit), the National Museum of Natural History has a new exhibition, Narwhal, Revealing an Arctic Legend opening tomorrow August 3 and running until 2019. Show More Summary
(Florida Museum of Natural History) When trouble looms, the fish-scale geckos of Madagascar resort to what might seem like an extreme form of self-defense -- tearing out of their own skin. Now, new research shows the geckos' skin contains...Show More Summary
The American Museum of Natural History examines the reason why the physical sight of the Big Dipper, the seven brightest stars of the Ursa Major constellation, remains unchanged to the human eye throughout many years past and will continue to remain unchanged to the human eye for many years to come. Stars aren’t still–they move...
The narwhal with its unique, spiraling tusk has inspired legends in Inuit society and fascinated people across cultures for centuries. On Aug. 3, a new exhibition at the Smithsonian?s National Museum of Natural History will dive deep...Show More Summary
L.A.'s most famous feline now has his own exhibit at the Natural History Museum. [ more › ]
(American Museum of Natural History) Next-generation sequencing -- the ability to sequence millions or billions of small fragments of DNA in parallel -- has revolutionized the biological sciences, playing an essential role in everything...Show More Summary
Witness nature reimagined in an exhibition that sees a combination of fashion, digital art and animal specimens on show. In collaboration with the Natural History Museum at Tring, Walter Rothschild?s spectacular collection of natural history provides the inspiration for colourful virtual collages by Platon H and couture dresses by Mary Katrantzou. Show More Summary
Recently, the Discovery Channel staged a race between 28-time Olympic-medal winner Michael Phelps and a CGI shark. George Buress, the director for the Florida Program for Shark Research at the Florida Museum of Natural History and contributor to SharkFest, explains what would've happened to Phelps if he'd been next to a real shark. Show More Summary
A team of researchers—including Dr. Lauren Esposito, Curator of Arachnology at the California Academy of Sciences and colleagues the American Museum of Natural History and Universidade de São Paulo (Brazil)—have painstakingly revised a large group of Neotropical "club-tailed" scorpions. Show More Summary
In the hills of Griffith Park, a lone mountain lion roams. To tell this urban carnivore?s story, the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County debuted the new installation The Story of P-22, L.A.?s Most Famous Feline on Friday, July 21, 2017. Show More Summary
Throughout the '70s and '80s, Gerald Matthews lived next to the American Museum of Natural History in Manhattan in an apartment big enough to host rowdy parties. One drunken night he and a band of party-goers raided the museum grounds,...Show More Summary