Archaeologists spend careers mapping the expected, yet some of the most revealing discoveries arrive where no one thought to ...

The year's top paleontological wonders ranged from a 540-million-year-old penis worm to a decades-old rodent impression.

The fossilized dentition will help paleontologists identify isolated Pachycephalosaurus teeth from the Hell Creek Formation in South Dakota.

Some have plans for their estates. But for artists who don't, it means after they die it becomes someone else's problem.

Four new portraits have gone up at the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, showcasing this year’s recipients of the ...

A little over a century ago, some grizzly bears still roamed the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains that ring the ...

The recently acquired skull of the dome-headed dinosaur Pachycephalosaurus. USNM PAL 803273, Department of Paleobiology, Smithsonian Institution. Gift of Eric and Wendy Schmidt. Photo by James D.

These skulls, though, are only the latest in a decades-long trend that, according to United States Patent and Trademark Office records, saw the rate of skulls and skeletons in American logos increase ...

Animal skulls can deceive even the experts. This quiz invites viewers to guess seven species from their skeletal remains, exploring what these bones reveal about diet, intelligence, and adaptation, ...

A badly crushed cranium unearthed decades ago from a riverbank in central China that once defied classification is now shaking up the human family tree, according to a new analysis. Scientists ...

Experts said miners at the site used their hoses to help paleontologists thaw the ground to remove the skull. Photo by T Fe via Unsplash At a placer mine in Canada’s Klondike region, paleontologists ...

At a placer mine in Canada’s Klondike region, paleontologists made an unexpected and “incredible” find. Initially, only half an of an animal skull, including the jaw, was visibly sticking out of the ...