Around 300 workers at the iconic SoCal institutions will join AFSCME as part of a voluntary recognition agreement with ...

A new study suggests the extinction of Neanderthals nearly coincided with a shift in Earth's magnetic field that let more ...

more than one million tourists and Southern California locals stream through the La Brea Tar Pits and the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County, taking in prehistoric fossils and centuries ...

The bones of butchered and cooked animals have been found in the most high-status graves. Some hold the skulls of wild sheep, ...

The Museum of Texas Tech houses fossils from the Triassic, Ice Age. Here's a behind the scenes look into the paleontology ...

The Shanghai Natural History Museum (SNHM) kicked off a landmark international ... which is my favorite in the study of ancient organisms or fossils and China is conducting a lot of world leading ...

As Diana Boudreau shaves bits of rock off a large, prehistoric skull ... FossiLab at D.C.’s Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History — located along Constitution Avenue downtown.

A jawbone dredged up from the seafloor off Taiwan belongs to an ancient human species known as Denisovans, protein fragments ...

"I've seen a lot of strange insects, but this has to be one of the most peculiar-looking ones I've seen in a while," said one entomologist.

For scientists and conservationists, knowing how species survive planetary crises can lead to more effective protection of vulnerable species.

Researchers named the parasitic creature Sirenobethylus charybdis —both after the sirens of Greek mythology that lured in sailors to their doom and after Charybdis, a mythical sea monster that created ...

An extinct species of parasitic wasp dating back nearly 99 million years was found preserved in amber, according to researchers.