Amsterdam’s new Art Zoo museum offers a surreal blend of natural history and contemporary taxidermy inside a 17th-century canal mansion. Curated by Dutch artists Ferry van Tongeren and Jaap Sinke, the ...

While drilling for a geothermal tap, museum scientists took the opportunity to study what lay below the surface. To their surprise, they hit something unexpected: a dinosaur bone -- the oldest and ...

NEW YORK — The largest piece of Mars ever found on Earth was sold for just over $5 million at an auction of rare geological and archaeological objects in New York on Wednesday, while a juvenile ...

Nicole Mercuri, 26, was walking along a Florida beach when she says she spotted a giant tooth that once belonged to a ...

John Day Fossil Beds National Monument (nps.gov/joda) is a bafflingly underexplored marvel of the state’s landscape. Only about three hours away from Portland, a visit offers the sublime experience of ...

The other two lots that sold for seven figures and well above high estimates were dinosaur fossils: a "virtually complete" Skull of a Pachycephalosaurus (estimate of $800,00 – $1.2 million) and an ...

“Preserved blood vessel structures, like we have found in Scotty’s rib bone, appear linked to areas where the bone was ...

The anatomy of a Chinese fossil offers a hint that birdsong may be as old as the dinosaurs themselves. Since the 1930s, ...

Scientists at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science discovered a 67 million-year-old dinosaur fossil hidden under their ...

A new study has uncovered evidence that a giant marine reptile from the Early Jurassic period used stealth to hunt its prey in deep or dark waters—much like owls on land today.

Two new papers analyze fossils found in Canada and Kenya, respectively—vastly different environments for the preservation of ...