A new 450-million-year-old arthropod fossil, Lomankus edgecombei, has been uncovered in New York, revealing crucial ...

Display at the Jeeninga Museum. credit to AU photos As October begins, you may see the Halloween decorations of mummies or ...

"You never know unless you look," said Jayson Kowinsky, a high school physics teacher from Pittsburgh who, while sifting around in the New Jersey dirt, found a fossil that helped fill out the puzzle ...

Scientists have discovered the oldest-known fossil of a giant tadpole that wriggled around over 160 million years ago. The ...

Experts have discovered a 450-million-year-old 3D fossil of a spider relative preserved in fool’s gold. Fossils offer a ...

Paleontologists have identified fossils of an ancient species of bug that spent the past 450 million years covered in fool's ...

A group of 20 staff members from the museum participated in fossil digs in Wyoming and Montana, which resulted in the discovery of new dinosaur fossils. Among the finds were parts of a Hadrosaurus ...

A team of researchers led by Associate Professor Luke Parry , Department of Earth Sciences, University of Oxford, have unveiled a spectacular new ...

The Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History's exhibits and facilities (including restrooms, several gift shops and two cafes) are free to visit, but fees do apply for the Butterfly Pavilion, ...

Picasso was particularly inspired by various prehistoric elements, as the 2023 exhibition No Past in Art: How Prehistory Inspired Picasso’s Work at the Musée de l’Homme in Paris showed. Gauguin, ...

If you want to dive deeper into natural history, special programs are available for children, adults and families. Check the events calendar online for more info. The museum is open daily from 9:30 a.

A creature that scuttled along the seafloor 450 million years ago has been preserved in a rare and striking fossil that ...