Meet Patience, a two-toed sloth, at Dayton’s Boonshoft Museum soon

The Boonshoft Museum of Discovery will celebrate International Sloth Day this Saturday. Patience, the two-toed sloth, will be ...

166-million-year-old dinosaur footprints unearthed in Oxford quarry revealing Jurassic giants

A major dinosaur trackway, 166 million years old, has been discovered in Oxfordshire. This find reveals hundreds of ...

Auckland Museum reopens after five months closed due to asbestos

Five months after the discovery of asbestos led to the closure of Auckland Museum, it has finally reopened the doors to the ...

Inside Richard Leakey's discovery of an ancient human ancestor skull—the same his parents chased

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

Newly discovered Jurassic 'sword dragon' sheds light on Ichthyosaur Evolution

A new ichthyosaur species, Xiphodracon goldencapensis, or 'sword dragon,' has been unearthed on the UK's Jurassic Coast. This ...