Museums are supposed to be havens for the collective cultural and scientific heritage of the planet, but specimens sometimes ...

A giant shark vertebra missing since 1989 is rediscovered in storage after being mistaken for junk, confirming the ancient ...

, July 5 -- Chinese researchers have discovered a new Jurassic bird fossil that is changing scientists' understanding of how birds evolved shorter tails, according to a study published online in the ...

Fossils tucked away in a museum drawer and identified merely as "feline" are actually from a very ancient and enigmatic saber ...

Researchers analyzed 200 fossil teeth from ancient mammals in China, revealing how they adapted and diversified after the ...

In a cave on the Indonesian island of Flores, a tiny human relative once lived alongside dwarf elephants, giant rats, and ...