The ancient city of Kish was occupied from at least as early as 3200 B.C. through the 7th century A.D. Located on the floodplain of the Euphrates River eighty kilometers south of modern Baghdad, the ...
Crystals inside a prehistoric bone rewrote scientists’ estimates of the age of the archaeological site, suggesting that the ...
In a dry riverbed in Brazil, in a dense forest near the Amazon, a team of paleontologists found a fossilized jawbone from an ancient animal. Over the course of their fieldwork, they found eight ...
Life on Earth started in the oceans. Sometime around 475 million years ago, plants began making their way from the water onto the land, and it took another 100 million years for the first animals with ...
Flying is really hard work. Compared to walking, swimming, or running, flying is the form of movement that takes the most energy and requires the most calories. That means that birds have had to ...
A fossil only tells part of the story. When an animal’s body is preserved as a fossil, there are often pieces missing, and even a perfectly-preserved body doesn’t tell the whole story of how that ...
Assistant Curator of African Anthropology Foreman Bandama is co-author of a recent paper on that topic in Quaternary Science Advances. In Africa south of the Zambezi River, archaeologists and other ...
Renaming Chicago's iconic Lake Shore Drive has renewed interest in the multicultural legacy of the city's first non-Native settler. Before the Chicago City Council voted to rename Lake Shore Drive in ...
SUE the T. rex is an incredibly complete fossil, and Máximo the Titanosaur is a cast. Here’s why we have both. “Is that real?” This is a question we often hear from visitors as they roam the Field ...
In general, evolution is a long, slow process of tiny changes passed down over generations, resulting in new adaptations and even new species over thousands or millions of years. But when living ...
Archaeopteryx is the fossil that proved Darwin right. It’s the oldest known fossil bird, and it helps show that all birds— including the ones alive today— are dinosaurs. And while the first ...
Families with children ages 2–6 are invited to a free, drop-in PlayDate to celebrate May the Fourth with space rocks and a special movement activity. Join us for a fun-filled PlayDate with stories, ...
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