For more than 150 years, scientists have debated whether Prototaxites—which stood roughly 24 feet tall and 3 feet wide—were ...
The change measured by the Mauna Loa Observatory was likely driven by wildfires and continued burning of fossil fuels, scientists say Sara Hashemi The two protesters hoped to draw attention to ...
Scott is curator of fossil plants at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History. His research is largely based on field work, where he collects fossil plants because they provide a long-term ...
Brittany M. Hance, Smithsonian. The Kermitops fossil (left) next to a modern frog skull (right). The prehistoric fossil had spent decades in the Smithsonian's National Fossil Collection waiting ...
Digitally recording the 40 million fossils at the Smithsonian will take an estimated 50 years. But five years into the project, the team says it is "bringing dark data into the light" for crucial ...
So many individual fossils have been found that scientists ... whole skeletons," says paleontologist Hans-Dieter Sues of the Smithsonian Institution, "and some birds were preserved so well you ...
That resident was, of course, the fossil skull of a Triceratops dinosaur that had sat on display at the University of Colorado Museum of Natural History for decades. In May, a team from the ...
Fossil Atmospheres is a National Science Foundation-funded project based out of the National Museum of Natural History and the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center. We work to bring together ...