Drexel’s revamped environmental science courses this past fall led students to the muddy marshes of New Jersey, a unique experiential learning opportunity resulting from the University’s affiliation ...

Kate Doyle, vertebrate collections manager for the UMass natural history collection, stands with a right whale called Staccato, which has been part of the UMass natural history collection for about 30 ...

Sharks, a giraffe and Queen Victoria’s Shetland pony were a few of the inhabitants of the Jenks Museum of Natural History, if existing records are to be believed about the anthropology and natural ...

A specimen of smithsonite housed in the museum’s mineral and gem collection. Jack Tamisiea, NMNH With more than 148 million specimens and objects, the vast majority of the National Museum of Natural ...

NEW YORK (AP) — There are stories in the human bones at the American Museum of Natural History. They tell of lives lived — some mere decades ago, others in past centuries — in cultures around the ...

Miniature Japanese sculptures, called netsuke, from the museum’s anthropology archives available for the public to see at the new exhibit. The Carnegie Museum of Natural History opened an exhibit Nov.

A stunning array of insects catch the light behind a glass pane where they hover on pegs above yellowed tags. The sheen of their fibrous wings and the careful posing of their articulated limbs make ...

Last week, staffers at the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) received an email from President Sean M. Decatur announcing that the institution will no longer display human remains, its ...

Angelo State University houses one of the region’s most extensive natural history collections, offering students and faculty a hands-on way to study science while also supporting researchers around ...

The National Museum of Natural History’s new Pachycephalosaurus skull sheds light on enigmatic group of dinosaurs and will be on display during the holiday season Jack Tamisiea The museum recently ...

Smithsonian scientists and researchers work to understand the natural history of Earth. They explore how the Earth and its inhabitants have changed and adapted over time. They explore questions about ...