Smithsonian's Sea Monsters Unearthed traveling exhibition begins national tour, sharing a missing chapter in Earth's history.

Our bond with cats – which has seen them go from hunter to house pet – may be more diverse than with any other animal. And ...

In a look ahead at a week of Cambridge and Somerville events, there's a Monster Mash and you can meet the “Ghosts of ...

Women and girls in rural Zimbabwe are reviving Nhanga, an ancient custom traditionally used to prepare girls to marriage, and ...

In a 1970 National Geographic feature, paleoanthropologist Richard Leakey—son of Louis and Mary Leakey—recounted his ...

Long before industry, our ancestors faced toxic metals, including lead. This exposure may have shaped the evolution of human ...

Deep under the Jurassic rock beds of New South Wales, scientists discovered fossilized insects that push back the history of one of the world’s most hardy families of flies. These fragile traces, ...

Masud Olufani was hurting. It was 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic had everyone on lockdown, and, like the rest of Black America, ...

The uplift of East Africa during the Miocene epoch dramatically transformed the region's climate and ecosystems, promoting ...

Hand fossils unearthed in Kenya reveal that an extinct human relative called Paranthropus boisei had unexpected dexterity and gorilla-like strength.

Kwame Nkrumah Institute of African Studies When the National Pan-Hellenic Council (NPHC) was founded on May 10, 1930 at ...