Ancient Chinese fossils may belong to a new human species, Homo juluensis, with large brain sizes, challenging traditional ...

Scientists suggest meat consumption was pivotal to humans' development of larger brains, but the transition probably didn't ...

By doing this we will be able to be more confident about any conclusions we draw about past climate from the fossil leaves. Scott is curator of fossil plants at the Smithsonian's National Museum of ...

For more than 150 years, scientists have debated whether Prototaxites—which stood roughly 24 feet tall and 3 feet wide—were an early lichen or fungus, like a “giant mushroom” ...

Fossil Atmospheres is a National Science Foundation-funded project based out of the National Museum of Natural History and the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center. We work to bring together ...

Two-Meter-Long Fossil of Lobster-Like Animal That Swam the Seas 480 Million Years Ago Discovered, Used Its Head to Catch Prey ...

Earliest Humans Evolved Between 2 Million and 6 Million Years Ago Fossil records indicate that the earliest humans evolved between 2 million and 6 million years ago, according to the Smithsonian ...

Brittany M. Hance, Smithsonian. The Kermitops fossil (left) next to a modern frog skull (right). The prehistoric fossil had spent decades in the Smithsonian's National Fossil Collection waiting ...

Digitally recording the 40 million fossils at the Smithsonian will take an estimated 50 years. But five years into the project, the team says it is "bringing dark data into the light" for crucial ...

That resident was, of course, the fossil skull of a Triceratops dinosaur that had sat on display at the University of Colorado Museum of Natural History for decades. In May, a team from the ...