For world pangolin day, learn more about how genetic researchers helped pinpoint a hidden lineage of the critically endangered mammals ...

Natural history museums contain an astonishing snapshot of the planet's biodiversity. Using this information to better ...

An ancient snake fossil discovered in England reveals a strange new species and clues to the origins of modern snakes.

When visitors arrive at the San Diego Natural History Museum, they can explore four floors of exhibits, fossils, dioramas, life-size models, watch big-screen nature films and, on Friday nights, enjoy ...

Every year, the Natural History Museum’s Wildlife Photographer of the Year turns the natural world into a gallery of ...

The New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science in Albuquerque is set to reopen after around eight months of major renovations.

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) — A prominent Albuquerque museum has been closed for renovations since August. That closure is now expected to come to an end in early April. On Wednesday, the New Mexico ...

The earliest sponges to live on the earth were soft and skeletonless pioneers - rewriting the story of the origin of animal ...

The Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University in Philadelphia is the oldest Natural History Museum in the Americas and it has over 18 million dead specimens. The wonders inside vary from a ...

For National Snail Day, museum research fellow Melissa Betters explores the mollusks’ notable nature Melissa Betters A shell from the Cuvier tropid snail, a terrestrial species native to Madagascar, ...

From fruit flies that bite to a tiny mouse opossum and a feathered dinosaur preserved with the remains of its last meal, more than 70 new species were described this year by researchers at the ...