Cristián Samper, evolutionary biologist and the director of Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History, discusses his favorite evotourism sites. Brendan Smialowski Cristián Samper is an ...
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 ...
At the new “Explore Evolution” museum exhibit in Kansas, visitors pass a banner showing the face of a girl next to the face of a chimpanzee for a lesson on how the two are “cousins in life’s family ...
CHICAGO (AP) -- A new exhibit at The Field Museum examines life in everything from the Precambrian to the Quaternary periods, but it's opening during a period when the theory of evolution is under ...
It's called the Archaeopteryx. It once had feathers, hollow bones, clawed wings, 50 tiny teeth and a long bony tail. It's one of the earliest known dinosaurs that also qualifies as a bird. "It's ...
Welcome from Tim Johnson, Associate Director for Museum Programs, and opening remarks by symposium moderator Ray Suarez, Senior Correspondent, PBS NewsHour. The National Museum of the American Latino ...
The Lunar New Year ushers in the Year of the "Fire Horse," the first time in 60 years the zodiac has honored the sign. Chicago’s Field Museum is celebrating with its "After the Age of Dinosaurs" ...
Shaw Badenhorst works for the University of the Witwatersrand. He receives funding from GENUS, the National Research Foundation and the Palaeontological Scientific Trust. South Africa has one of the ...