The eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 AD buried Pompeii and Herculaneum, preserving Roman life in ash. Recent discoveries, ...

The Cooper Center houses Orange County's largest collection of local fossils but resides in an unmarked warehouse that's ...

A Smithsonian Institution publication released on May 1, 2025, unveils the extraordinary diversity of Ice Age animals ...

Big Bone Lick State Historic Site is known as the "Birthplace of American Vertebrate Paleontology." On May 9th, a ceremony ...

Most modern birds solved this issue by evolving shorter appendages to accompany their tertial feathers. But even though ...

A Roman bone found alongside 1,000 black henbane hallucinogenic seeds reveals medical and ritual practices in ancient Roman ...

Adorned in their macabre attire, the caterpillars can safely navigate spiderwebs undetected. They use their camouflage to ...

Originally from South America, the charismatic tegu made its way to the United States via the pet trade of the 1990s. After ...

Starnes said he looked down and saw the partially exposed bone lodged in mud where ... which is one positioned along the animal's back, may be largest ever collected in the state. "When we compared it ...

Although some biologists have since poured cold water on the actual science behind the dire wolf’s revival, there’s now talk ...

Stout Research Center at Anza Borrego Desert State Park is believed to house fragments of the longest continuous record of ...

Starnes said he looked down and saw the partially exposed bone ... along the animal's back, may be largest ever collected in the state. "When we compared it to stuff in the collection, that's ...