New Curator of Mammalogy Ally Coconis, Ph.D., with kangaroo rat specimens in the SBMNH collections. Photo by SBMNH Coconis ...

Coconis, right, with a volunteer conducts biological surveys of a restored city park in Salt Lake City, Utah (Mark Johnston photo) The Santa Barbara ...

Heartbroken? The Houston Museum of Natural Science offers a humorous form of catharsis: Name a hissing cockroach after your ex. The big picture: HMNS' annual "Endless Love" runs through Feb. 14, ...

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The Cape Cod Museum of Natural History is re-opening for its 2026 season with a lineup of activities during February school ...

Bones currently separated by thousands of miles could rewrite a piece of the natural history of northern Wyoming. Detailed in a paper published by the New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science, ...

Scientists used a group of plants called melastomes as a case study to determine how, when and why a mountain range in ...

The public will choose the winner of the People’s Choice award in a vote that runs from February 4 to March 18 ...

This year’s event, themed "Passport to the Moon," invites people to explore the future of lunar exploration. Eastern North ...

In 2026, the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History is celebrating all things American bison. Through a series of ...

In South Africa, paleontology has been dominated by white people. Lazarus Kgasi is changing that dynamic — and coloring in the picture of the world our distant ancestors once inhabited.