A mystery that started with the discovery of a pinkie finger bone in Denisova Cave in the Altai Mountains of southern Siberia may finally have been cracked.

South Africa has one of the world’s richest fossil records of hominins (humans and their fossil ancestors). But many misconceptions still exist regarding human evolution, and school textbooks contain ...

ITHACA, N.Y. (AP) -- Educated as a geologist in her native Hungary, Eniko Farkas knows, understands and firmly believes in the science behind evolution. Still, she was caught off guard last year when ...

At the end of February, I was 1,800 miles away in the state of Texas. My husband and I had to close down a bank account (we used to live in Texas, and this bank required we be there in person to do ...

Stifling, stagnant and jading are no longer terms used to describe the new wave of museums and exhibits that are burgeoning up worldwide. Museum visits have now become less about the exhibits and ...

Groundbreaking new research from the Museums Victoria Research Institute has turned upside down our previous understanding of the evolution of the largest animals ever––baleen whales. Palaeontologists ...

CEDAR RAPIDS - From the ancient oud to modern day electric axes, humans have been playing some variation of the guitar for thousands of years. That history, and the many forms the guitar has taken, ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. "Dynamics of Evolution," the first ...

A visitor at the Frye Museum in Seattle (photo by Joe Wolf/Flickr) What you experience when you visit an art museum these days is likely very different from what your parents did when they were your ...

Explore the museum and hear inside stories on what it took to refurbish the 1930s Art Deco building, how stunning new exhibits combine with legacy museum displays to tell the story of 600 million ...