Held February through October, the hour-long lectures are included with Museum admission or MMNS Foundation Membership.

The Cambridge Natural History Museum and curator Anderson Taylor invite the public to a free presentation on “The Lives and Discoveries of Famous Female Paleontologists” on Saturday, January 10 from 1 ...

A strange prehistoric lobster has captured attention for its terrifying appearance and unexpected anatomy. Fossil evidence revealed features unlike anything seen in modern crustaceans. Scientists were ...

(CNN) — Tyrannosaurus rex lived longer and took more time to reach its maximum size than previously thought, according to a new study. Scientists have long counted annual growth rings in fossilized ...

Whatever happened to the duck-billed dinosaur, it was a real pain in the butt. Many of the spines sitting atop the animal’s tail vertebrae had been fractured. The dinosaur, known as Olorotitan to ...

Aside from our big brains, the trait that most distinguishes humans from other animals is our ability to walk fully upright on two legs, a style of movement without parallel in the animal kingdom. But ...

In recent decades, scientists have debated whether a seven-million-year-old fossil was bipedal—a trait that would make it the oldest human ancestor. A new analysis by a team of anthropologists offers ...

The year’s most notable findings also include insights into dog and sheep domestication and a new species of manta ray in the museum’s collection Jack Tamisiea The newly-described early pterosaur ...

In the early 2000s, researchers uncovered primate bones that were approximately seven million years old in Chad’s Djurab Desert. Since then, the fossils, which belonged to the extinct species ...

What happens behind the scenes of a dinosaur exhibit? Short Wave host Regina Barber got to find out … by taking a trip to the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in Pittsburgh. In the museum's basement ...