Cristián Samper, evolutionary biologist and the director of Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, discusses his favorite evotourism sites. Brendan Smialowski Cristián Samper is an ...
South Africa has one of the world's richest fossil records of hominins (humans and their fossil ancestors). But many misconceptions still exist regarding human evolution, and school textbooks contain ...
Scientists at the University of Vienna, Austria, have screened great ape specimens obtained from natural history museums to identify DNA viruses. This groundbreaking study provides unique insights ...
A new species of coelacanth has been identified from a 150-year-old fossil housed at London's Natural History Museum. Former ...
The Lunar New Year ushers in the Year of the "Fire Horse," the first time in 60 years the zodiac has honored the sign. Chicago’s Field Museum is celebrating with its "After the Age of Dinosaurs" ...
After a warm Friday morning, you can plan for winds, periods of rain, and a plunge in temperatures. http://washingtongardener.blogspot.com/2010/10/evolution-of ...
ANTHONY NAIROBI, Kenya -- Deep in the dusty, unlit corridors of Kenya's national museum, locked away in a plain-looking cabinet, is one of mankind's oldest relics: Turkana Boy, as he is known, the ...