A New York homeowner, in Scotchtown, Orange County, was "thrilled" to find mastodon fossils in their backyard, which museum staff plan to study to learn more about the last ice age. A New York ...

Paleontologist Thaís Pansani standing in front of a reconstructed giant ground sloth skeleton at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural ... the end of the last Ice Age, a time when an ice ...

“You can only get it here, and it is curated specially for the museum ... Dinosaur plushies and masks would be hard to beat at the kids’ shop, but the sassy t-rex collection would appeal to ...

“It belongs in a museum,” shouts Jones ... footprints preserved in White Sands National Park, confirming that humans coexisted with ancient Ice Age mammals. Bonde says it’s exciting to ...

Details about the juvenile Tyrannosaurus rex fossil discovered by three boys in North Dakota are beginning to take shape, including its size, age and how its body worked.

Here are all the holidays and observances to watch for in January 2025. New Year's Day kicks off the month, but there are ...

Dr Duncan Murdock, earth scientist at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History (OUMNH), said: "The preservation is so detailed that we can see how the mud was deformed as the dinosaurs ...

The dodecahedron on display at the National Civil War Centre, Newark Museum. CREDIT ... to the cold climate shift brought on by the last ice age. There has been little direct evidence of such ...

New research from several sites is starting to suggest that people came to the Americas earlier — perhaps far earlier — than ...

A power line caught on fire during an ice storm in Evansville, Indiana, on January 5, as thousands across the county were left without power, local news reported. Dramatic footage recorded by Edward ...

You may never have heard of Brooklyn, Illinois. You might not be aware it’s one of the country’s first Black settlements, or ...

Before you go to the shopping mall, how about a trip to the National ... dried ice cream can’t be beat if you’re looking for an iconic – and nostalgic – Smithsonian museum gift.