By Eric Washburn When I was a kid growing up in Aurora in the late 1960s and early 1970s, one of my favorite things to do was ...

Too often when we look at the natural world, things can seem gloomy. Not only are the impacts of global warming becoming more and more obvious, we're also in the midst of an insect apocalypse that has ...

Athletic, crocodile-like reptiles with bladed teeth made their last stand in the Caribbean as recently as 4.5 million years ago. New fossils unearthed in the Dominican Republic suggest the reptile ...

Archosauromorphs walked - across a 10,000-mile hellscape - so dinosaurs could run. According to a new study published in Nature Ecology and Evolution, archosauromorphs, early ancestors of dinosaurs ...

A spectacular fossil trove on the Arctic island of Spitsbergen shows that marine life made a stunning comeback after Earth’s greatest extinction. Tens of thousands of fossils reveal fully aquatic ...

Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the University of Southampton, and specializes in animal behavior, evolution, palaeontology, and the environment. Rachael has a degree in Zoology from the ...

Lizards are generally considered as harmless reptiles that creep along the walls, rest on rocks, or hide under plant leaves.

Snakes are common and widespread reptiles, inhabiting most areas of the world, from deserts and forests to wetlands and coral reefs. However, some species are so elusive that even scientists rarely ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. The National Museum of Natural ...