The Conversation 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 ...

For more than 150 years, scientists have debated whether Prototaxites—which stood roughly 24 feet tall and 3 feet wide—were ...

By doing this we will be able to be more confident about any conclusions we draw about past climate from the fossil leaves. Scott is curator of fossil plants at the Smithsonian's National Museum of ...

Million-Year-Old Preserved Fossil of ‘Biblical Snake’ Skull That Had Legs Unearthed by Archaeologists A team of ...

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 ...

Two-Meter-Long Fossil of Lobster-Like Animal That Swam the Seas 480 Million Years Ago Discovered, Used Its Head to Catch Prey ...

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 ...

The fossil was collected in 1984 near Lake Kemp in Texas and kept in the expansive collection of the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History in Washington, but was not ...

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 ...

In a new study published today, June 26, in Scientific Reports, Smithsonian’s National Museum ... Analysis of 3D models of the fossil’s surface revealed that the cut marks were dead ringers ...