Our human evolution workshops were conducted with well-resourced and historically disadvantaged schools attending. The grade ...

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

Dr Svenson comes to Oxford University from the Cleveland Museum of Natural History (Ohio, USA), where he was curator of Invertebrate Zoology and, since 2022, chief science officer.

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

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

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 ...

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

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.

That’s because these people bear many striking similarities to modern humans even though they lived well before what may be the oldest fossil evidence of Homo sapiens, from a site in Ethiopia ...

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

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 ...