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Somehow, they perform magic at the Brazos Valley Museum of Natural History -- finding another nook or cranny of space to display yet another exhibit, and still have it all look remarkably like the genuine museum it is. The...
Reporting from Leiden, Netherlands - For a small town, Leiden has a surprising number of museums dedicated to natural history, medical science, antiquity and the city's past. A gem among them is the ...
On Nov. 21, 1953, British scientists revealed that the fossils of the Piltdown man, discovered in 1912, was a composite of human and orangutan skulls doctored to look like an early human skull. In 1912, British antiquarian...
Watercolour of a lion-haired macaque from the John Reeves Collection, c 1820s, features in the new Museum book Art of Nature 300 years of natural history art are brought to you in Art of Nature, a new book from the Natural...
With thousands of stinging cells that can emit deadly venom from tentacles that can reach ten feet in length, the 50 or so species of box jellyfish have long been of interest to scientists and to the public. Yet little has been...
A rare mockingbird could be reintroduced to the Galapagos Islands - with the help of some specimens collected by Charles Darwin. A team of geneticists extracted DNA from two birds that the famous naturalist collected in 1835....
Most of us have read the works of Charles Darwin, but it's a powerful, more personal experience to see them in his own handwriting. Be sure to check out the Darwin Manuscripts Project site, mentioned in the following American...
MEXICO CITY (AP) -- Northern Mexico's Yaqui Indians buried their lost warriors after a two-year effort to rescue the remains from New York's American Museum of Natural History, where the victims of one of North America's last...
The American Museum of Natural History has opened a major new exhibition, Traveling the Silk Road: Ancient Pathway to the Modern World. The exhibition brings to life one of the greatest trading routes in human history,...
Mr C has not seen the above film. I haven’t seen it for years, but I was reminded of it when we went to the Natural History Museum on Thursday. I’d never been there before. We went because we happened to be in the area for my...
