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

Feb. 12—"Walk Through Time" at the New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science is now complete with the addition of the Bradbury Stamm Construction Hall of Ancient Life. The permanent exhibition ...

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

In a nutshell A newly discovered 69-million-year-old bird skull from Antarctica proves that modern birds were already diverse ...

“Walk Through Time” at the New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science is now complete ... tells the story of 300 million years of evolution before the dinosaurs, according to the museum ...

But, alas, the mosasaurs were not dinosaurs. As with plesiosaurs, the biggest giveaway is its habitat: “With the exception of ...

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?

Science dioramas of yesteryear can highlight the biases of the time. Exhibit experts are reimagining, annotating — and sometimes mothballing — the scenes.

New research by scientists at the American Museum of Natural History and the University of Nebraska-Lincoln reports, for the ...

The mystery behind the origins of the dinosaurs may have been given a new twist, with a modeling study suggesting they may have evolved in what is today equatorial Africa and South America. This would ...