On the fourth floor of Noland hall, a fully articulated chimpanzee skeleton and taxidermy wolf block the whiteboard in a discussion room. Cabinets line the walls, and inside researchers can find ...

Scientists have found two specimens of a 444 million-year-old "inside-out" fossil with well-preserved soft tissue, according to a new study. Unlike most fossils, the creature's muscles and guts — but ...

Researchers in the UK have now adapted a Raman spectroscopy technique to analyse preservation fluids in specimen jars without ...

The Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History has one of the biggest bird collections in the world, housing over 600,000 specimens, from ducks to eagles to peacocks. The collection was created ...

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Seven naturally preserved mummified cheetahs have been discovered in a cave in Saudi Arabia. The contents of these caves, which also include the remains of 54 more cheetahs as well as prey animals, ...

A newly identified parasitic wasp that buzzed and flew among dinosaurs 99 million years ago evolved a bizarre mechanism to snare other creatures and force them to unwittingly shelter its young, ...

The Natural History Museum's Spirit Collection Tour takes guests behind the scenes for an up-close look at their collection.

Researchers have uncovered a previously unknown species of ancient jellyfish that lived more than 500 million years ago. The now-extinct creature is the oldest swimming jellyfish discovered to date ...