The Carnegie Museum of Natural History has received a $25 million gift from patrons Daniel G. and Carole L. Kamin, it was announced last week. It is the largest individual monetary gift to the ...

Seven new species are getting a home at the National Aviary, and most of them aren't birds. The Carnegie Museum of Natural ...

An eight-armed, pig-snouted brittle star found in the depths of the South Pacific has roots reaching back to the days of the dinosaurs. Researchers discovered the brittle star in 2015, in a barrel of ...

Several presidents have their names attached to some of Colorado's greatest natural treasures. After all, it takes a ...

Does a duck always look like a duck and quack like a duck? Sixty-six million years ago, at the end of the Cretaceous Period, ...

Some social media posts said the bones were discovered in North America, while others suggested a North African locale.

Joshua Bell, a curator at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History, says that many people still ...

Binge-watch more than 60 feature films, documentaries, shorts, local productions, and animated films at the 26th annual DC ...

To plan for the future, it's sometimes necessary to look to the past. To improve natural history collection and analysis in ...

What aims to be a world-class avian conservation center that will revolutionize avian veterinary care and the conservation of ...

(THE CONVERSATION) As an archaeologist, you picture yourself traveling to some remote location, digging into the ground, and returning to a lab in a university or museum to study the remains of past ...

A rare Arctic bird found deceased last week in southwest Kansas will become part of the collection at Lawrence's Kansas ...