With studies of fossilized bones, gut contents, eggshells and more, paleontologists revealed new and captivating details ...

Scientists exploring Romania’s Hațeg Basin have discovered one of the densest dinosaur fossil sites ever found, with bones ...

Fossil insect find, Zekuforma maculata, reveals a land-to-water experiment in evolution, rewriting 230 million years of true ...

A rare fossil plant reveals how early plants moved water and food, helping to explain the secrets of tree growth.

These radioactive elements decay at known rates, effectively acting as a built-in clock that reveals precisely when the eggs were buried millions of years ago. This natural timekeeping mechanism has ...

The Paleontological Research Institution may face closure by the end of the year if it cannot pay off a $3 million mortgage, ...

Burrowing bees generally prefer to make their nests in the open, but some 20,000 years ago their ancestors lived in a cave ...

From a small island off the coast of Panama to the farthest reaches of space, the Smithsonian advanced our knowledge of the universe on scales big and small in 2025.

The northern China region was inhabited by different human species at a time. New research has confirmed that a species of ...

The Tellus Science Museum in Georgia recently unveiled the first-ever scholarly, accurate, life-sized replica of Deinosuchus ...

Mosasaurs were enormous reptiles best known for ruling ancient oceans more than 66 million years ago, but new evidence suggests some also lived in rivers. Scientists reached this conclusion after ...

In 2026, to strengthen its impact, the Besser Museum’s Board of Trustees implemented new admission and membership pricing ...