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Archaeologists find the earliest use of nutmeg as a food ingredient and evidence of the transition to early farming practices in Indonesia.
Scientists have quantified the vast number of fossils that sit unstudied in natural history collections—a project three years in the making.
Barker and Burke collections left the museum’s walls and journeyed behind bars at the Washington State Reformatory Unit in Monroe.
Burke Museum and University of Washington paleontologists discovered more than 100 fossil specimens in 56 localities during a recent research expedition to Antarctica.
You Otter Know: The Big Bites of Little Sea Creatures
Preparation begins on the “Tufts-Love Rex”, excavation from the field complete.
A small tear revealed a rare piece history hiding in plain sight.
Video shows invasive lionfish feasting on new Caribbean fish species
For hundreds of years, a species of flying squirrel was hiding right under (actually, above) our noses.
One of the specimens of Magnuviator ovimonsensis found at Egg Mountain.