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The Galápagos Islands off the coast of Ecuador are home to more than a thousand plant and animal species found nowhere else ...

How do I purchase a ticket to the Pokémon Fossil Museum exhibition? Tickets for the date I want to visit are not yet available. When will I be able to access those? How long will tickets be available ...

Crystals inside a prehistoric bone rewrote scientists’ estimates of the age of the archaeological site, suggesting that the stone tools were made during a harsh ice age In central China, scientists ...

The use of the words “fact”, “hypothesis”, and “theory” in science can be confusing, especially if conducting research isn’t your everyday job! But these terms have specific meanings, and they’re part ...

References to The Field Museum's artifacts and biography of Schuster: Baker, Muriel and Margaret Lunt. Blue and White, the Cotton Embroideries of Rural China. New York, NY: Scribner, 1977. Cammann, ...

A new study on ancient societies from around the world is rewriting what we thought we knew about democracy. A team of researchers analyzed archaeological and historical evidence from 31 ancient ...

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 ...