A recent paper provides an updated perspective on the evolutionary history of chelicerates—a diverse and ecologically ...

As the Madre de Dios River flows through Peru toward the Amazon, it eats away at the landscape, slowly turning rock into mud.

"Walk Through Time" at the New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science is now complete with the addition of the Bradbury ...

As Earth approaches warmer levels experienced earlier in its geologic history, it may be bad news for human survival.

Does a duck always look like a duck and quack like a duck? Sixty-six million years ago, at the end of the Cretaceous Period, ...

A new exhibit featuring nearly 300 never-before-seen fossils will open at the New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science ...

Ancient DNA is telling us more and more about humans and environments long past. Could it also help rescue the future?

Some were the size of a dog. Others were as large as polar bears. A newly-discovered fossil of the ferocious hyaenodont is ...

More than 500 exceptionally preserved fossils are offering new clues about the evolution of Florida's animals and landscape.

In 2023, scientists discovered thousands of unknown life forms in the Pacific Ocean. The discovery highlighted an unsettling ...

a reminder of how far we’ve come from our tree dwelling days. As somebody once noted, “the body is a museum, full of ancient relics no one really needs anymore.” They are “evolutionary ...

We share the planet with a huge diversity of plants and creatures. But we can see similarities between organisms that live continents apart or are very different in other aspects. One reason for this ...