Supporters saw the Mütter’s preserved fetuses, skulls, and “Soap Lady” as a celebration of human difference. New management ...

Natural history museums teach us about our world, but they aren’t telling us the whole story, writes curator Jack Ashby in ...

But nearly 40 years after his 1959 discovery, John R. Johnson, Orr’s successor at the Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History, determined that the bones were more than 13,000 years old—making ...

“The modern strawberry has about four times as much DNA as the most ancient wild strawberries,” said Vance Whitaker, a ...

Fifteen years after the discovery of a new type of human, the Denisovan, scientists discovered its DNA in a fossilized skull. The key? Tooth plaque.

Ecological flexibility, not tools or genes, explains why only one migration out of Africa succeeded around 50,000 years ago.

Black Earth Rising’ is a reminder that the climate catastrophe is often felt most keenly by the populations who bare least ...

Scientists have recovered genetic material from a skull found in northeastern China, which they say reveals the most complete ...

Humankind's tangled shrub of ancestry now has a new branch: Researchers in the Philippines announced today that they have discovered a species of ancient human previously unknown to science ...

A new study highlights a surprising lens for tracking pollution trends over centuries: preserved plants and animals housed at natural history museums around the world. According to Shane DuBay, a ...

Learn more about the new study which suggests humans had to adapt to different environments within the African continent ...

First look at David Attenborough's immersive experience at Natural History Museum - Photographs from the exhibition preview reveal dazzling wildlife imagery, as well as breathtaking landscapes and sta ...