The fossils of the Hermit Trail occur in a fine-grained sandstone of Permian age, the period after the Carboniferous or ...

One of Colorado's most astonishing and coincidental fossil discoveries was found earlier this year, right beneath the parking lot of the Denver Museum of Nature & Science, museum officials announced ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. While many 'mysterious' natural phenomena have been unraveled by science, there remain a few that sit stubbornly outside our ...

Some researchers hold that evolution hasn’t much altered humans in the past 10,000 years. A new analysis of ancient DNA ...

The phrase “leave no stone unturned” has taken on new meaning for paleontologists at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science who discovered a special fossil hidden right under their noses — beneath ...

Immediate call for global action to shift world towards a “nature positive” approach is published in Frontiers in Science.

From “experimental archaeology” to the mysterious appeal of exploration, the wide-ranging subjects detailed in these titles captivated Smithsonian magazine’s science contributors this year Joe Spring, ...

The subject area represents the next stage of the database’s evolution, and heralds other proposed changes to journal selection and article categorization. The first Nature Index tables in the applied ...

The Colorado Museum of Natural History started out in 1900 with the Edwin Carter Collection of taxidermied birds and mammals, plus some butterflies, moths and crystallized gold, in a modest display in ...

Smithsonian scientists strive to understand the natural world from plants to planets. We work to save endangered species and conserve biodiversity, explore the Earth’s geological past and present, and ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Visitors to the Denver Museum of Nature & Science have two months to enjoy one of the City Park institution’s most famous exhibitions before it disappears — ...

Each year, the Nature Index publishes tables based on counts of high-quality research outputs in the previous calendar year. Users please note: The Nature Index database undergoes regular updating, ...