Across the world, natural history museums hold about 3 billion specimens of plants and animals in collections—and these ...

The raccoon has long held our fascination, admiration, and even our disdain. Perhaps no other animal has been as associated ...

The Donkeys at the Museum event was created in partnership with the Donkey Breed Society, and features a display of purple ...

For more than 100,000 years, coastal communities have harvested abalone (genus Haliotis). These gastropods, which are found ...

From WWII to the Jersey shore, find out the chilling details on some of the scariest shark attacks in history.

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In 1984, an amateur paleontologist in Scotland found a remarkable specimen: a nearly complete fossil of what looked to be a ...

A cast of a Deinosuchus, which lived 83.5 million years ago in the United States and was similar to modern alligators. They ...

Surprising new fossil evidence undermines the idea that there was ever a mass extinction on land – and may force us to ...

Between 85 to 100 cats were found crowded inside the home. A post on Facebook from Katdadde, Inc. said it was a hoarding ...

Visitors can interact with farm animals, explore historic buildings, and try their hand at traditional skills during the free ...

New research from Anglia Ruskin University shows dinosaur fossils contain evidence of ancient cancers that could help modern ...