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Paleobotanists discover the world's oldest forest dating back 385 million years
Charles Ver Straeten, curator of sedimentary rocks at the New York State Museum, made an unexpected discovery while surveying ...
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The strange, soothing art of insect taxidermy (and where to learn it in Chicago)
From beetle-pinning classes to possum yoga, the Insect Asylum offers citydwellers a place to commune with nature.
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New ‘Living Waters’ exhibition marks return of ‘evolved’ live animal center to Springfield Museums
If you love scales, spiders and sharks, good news: following a year of work and renovations, one of the biggest museums in ...
Loss of forests brought new birds to NZ during the last Ice Age – we’re witnessing a similar process now
When landscapes change, exotic species take advantage of new habitats. Such a pulse of colonisation coincided with the Ice ...
Flaco the owl’s troubled freedom: A meditation on zoos, stories and empathy
New Yorkers hold a memorial for Flaco, the Eurasian Eagle owl who died last week, leaving cards in his memory under a tree ...
It’s likely the only museum in CT where people often react ‘What the heck?’ Here’s why.
At a historical state house museum there are many things one would expect to see. Restorations of Senate and House chambers?
An apex carnivore was ‘king of the ancient Egyptian forest’ then mysteriously went extinct. A fossil could offer clues
With sharp catlike teeth and a doglike body, ancient carnivores called hyaenodonts were once at the top of the food chain, ...
Half term activities to keep your children busy
With schools in the West Midlands breaking up for half term, local organisations and councils have scheduled plenty of events ...
Birds of paradise glow on mating parade
In a study published Tuesday in the journal Royal Society Open Science, researchers found evidence of biofluorescence in most ...
500,000 years ago, a bunch of animals fell into a Florida sink hole
Roughly half a million years ago, a group of armadillo-like mammals, horses, and sloths met their end in a sinkhole in what ...
Why there’s a huge collection of vintage cars stored in the middle of the desert
A vast and eccentric collection of everything from vintage Rolls-Royces to an entire house relocated from Syria, the Sheikh ...
BACK THEN: Movers placed Darwin museum in new location 20 years ago
NEWS FROM THE ISSUE OF AUG. 2, 2001 A spectacle other than Frances Johnson’s twine ball drew onlookers out of homes and businesses in Darwin Thursday morning. Crewmen from ...