A routine visit to a museum drawer left one paleontologist speechless when a fossil dismissed for decades turned out to ...

Scientists have uncovered what may be the earliest evidence of "right-handedness" in the animal kingdom, dating back more ...

Learn about a surprise find of an early saber-toothed cat skull in a museum drawer, revealing how the teeth of ancient cats ...

There are also events about mushrooms, bats and much more at the National Museum of Natural History in September and October Jack Tamisiea A light gives a cast of the Nation’s T. rex’s skull a spooky ...

The four-inch-wide fragment had been quietly stored for decades in England when it caught the eye of a paleontologist.

Before the oldest dinosaur, before animals or even plants had expanded onto dry land, ancient relatives of starfish called ...

A mislabelled fossil, forgotten and sitting in a museum drawer for decades is actually more special than previously thought.

The Denver Museum of Nature and Science already houses a stunning collection of some 4.3 million relics spanning eras, fields, and cultures. As it happens, the museum is sitting on even deeper history ...