The wildest of the Canary Islands, Lanzarote's barren volcanic landscape features lava tunnels 6km long. Yet wine grapes can ...

Rome’s Pliny the Elder described emerald in his Natural History, published in the first century AD: “…nothing greens greener” was his verdict. He described the use of emerald by early lapidaries, who ...

Fossils of the pterosaur were discovered in Petrified Forest National Park. The fossils date back 209 million years.

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British nature writer Richard Mabey argues for “the generosity to reset the power balance between ourselves and the natural ...

From what the researchers were able to gather, the new species of pterosaur—dubbed Eotephradactylus mcintireae after Suzanne ...

Nymphs offer us more than just stories of sexy nature spirits. They can reveal how ancient people thought about their world ...

The Museum of Natural History is open between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. every day but Thursday, when it is open from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. It is closed on major holidays, and admission is free of charge.

In the remote reaches of Arizona s Petrified Forest National Park, scientists have unearthed North America's oldest known pterosaur a small, gull-sized flier that once soared above Triassic ecosystems ...

In May the atmosphere’s concentration of carbon dioxide exceeded 430 parts per million for the first time in recorded history. That’s bad news for many ecosystems and for human communities and ...

Nova Scotia Museum of Natural History is ranked #15 out of 19 things to do in Halifax. See pictures and our review of Nova Scotia Museum of Natural History.

Natural History Museum The museum is a temple to life and earth sciences comprising some 70 million items within five main collections: Botany, Entomology, Mineralogy, Palaeontology and Zoology.