Millions of treasures stashed in this museum storage site — open only to select visitors — tell the history of Earth's inhabitants.
A study of ancient artifacts suggests Native American dice games began thousands of years earlier than previously documented.
Bones in the barfed-up material, which dates to a time before the dinosaurs, offer a rare peek into the diet of a prehistoric hunter.
Scientists thought the ancestor of humans and apes lived in the tropics. A new study points to a chilly location instead for primate evolution.
A 66-million-year-old fossil tooth turned up alongside remains of a T. rex and ancient crocodile. This shows some mosasaurs roamed into rivers.
Flint, iron pyrite and fire residues found at an ancient site in England offer the earliest clear evidence of people lighting fires.
Genetic details from the animal, named Yuka, give a snapshot into its last moments alive. The mammoth had been preserved in permafrost for 40,000 years.
The fossils’ fabulous colors arise from delicate assemblies of crystal plates.
Now known as Nanotyrannus, this mini dino could have roamed the late Cretaceous alongside T. rex.
