Illinois’ commercial fossil trade is alive and well thanks to collectors who are motivated by money, science and the hunt — ...

Members of the Field Museum’s labor union and their supporters rallied outside the natural history museum on Wednesday to ...

From batch sales of unopened rocks on eBay to discreet phone calls to higher-dollar patrons, Illinois’ commercial fossil ...

Chance Ward began opening boxes of horse remains that had been shipped to the University of Colorado Museum of Natural ...

The Cape Cod Museum of Natural History in Brewster will conduct a series of bird walks and talks hosted by museum field guide Karl Fryzel on Wednesdays, March 19, April ...

A new analysis reveals that nearly half of the genus Heliconia, a group of tropical plants popular for their bright, beak-shaped flowers, are threatened with extinction.

Chance Ward, along with other scholars, advocates for respectful treatment of animal remains in museums, emphasizing cultural ...

Researchers did not expect the huge size of the meteorite given the frigid continent's history of thousands of space rocks ...

Tackling everything from geology to marine life to weather, the Museum of Natural History is a place for the curious. With a visit here, you can learn all about Nova Scotia's forests, see live ...

The Natural History Museum Ice Rink has now closed. After an incredible 16 years of ice skating at the Museum, the five-acre gardens on which the rink used to sit have now been transformed into a hub ...

The ring, discovered by a metal detectorist in the U.K., is estimated to sell for between $19,000 and $23,000 at auction.

The Museum of Natural History was founded in 1956, though the university began collecting and storing artifacts and specimens as early as 1837. Then called the Exhibit Museum, it was officially ...