Approximately 145 million: That's the number of specimens—including plants, animals, minerals, and human artifacts—curators ...

In a new and ongoing exhibition, the American Museum of Natural History highlights the findings of Mark Norell and other fossil hunters responsible for its most important discoveries. By Mark A. Stein ...

In the D.C. region, conversations often start with, “What do you do?” WTOP’s new series “Working Capital” profiles the people doing the work that makes the D.C. region unique. As Diana Boudreau shaves ...

A container of bones at the Natural History Museum of Utah that sat in storage for 20 years has now led to the discovery of an extinct “monster,” in the latest reminder that museum collections can ...

(PITTSBURGH) -- The Carnegie Museum of Natural History has made the behind-the-scenes inventory of rare fossils and other ancient artifacts available for public viewing for the first time. The ...

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 ...

Paleontologists at Dinosaur National Monument reopened the dig at the Quarry Exhibit Hall parking lot, and new fossils are ...

When visitors arrive at the San Diego Natural History Museum, they can explore four floors of exhibits, fossils, dioramas, life-size models, watch big-screen nature films and, on Friday nights, enjoy ...

A new species of coelacanth has been identified from a 150-year-old fossil housed at London's Natural History Museum. Former ...