We often tell ourselves a comforting story about the history of disease: it’s the price of civilization. For most of human ...

Scientists at the American Museum of Natural History investigated old specimens that had been at the museum for decades and ...

Scientists are discovering and naming new species at record-breaking speeds, shattering long-held assumptions that the golden age of biodiversity discovery peaked more than a century ago. A ...

If there were a place that could be called the archaeological almanac of Saudi Arabian culture, it would be Tell Abraq, located on the west coast of the United Arab Emirates. This area contains traces ...

The year’s most notable findings also include insights into dog and sheep domestication and a new species of manta ray in the museum’s collection Jack Tamisiea The newly-described early pterosaur ...