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The second installment of the exhibition highlights the story of “punk rock paleontologist” Jingmai O’Connor, the museum’s dinosaur curator.

The biomedical industry is adopting new standards to protect a primordial sea animal that is a linchpin of the production of vital medicines

Fossil evidence suggests foliar nyctinasty predates dinosaurs by millions of years.

Exquisitely preserved fossil of nearly complete flying reptile sheds light on Late Jurassic pterosaurs

Did our long-lost hominin cousins venture deep underground to dig graves for their dead, or is there still a mystery lurking in Rising Star Cave?

Paleontologists discovered the fossils of four extinct saber-toothed cats, including two new species, that roamed South Africa five million years ago.

Check out The Hindu’s science wrap featuring top 7 stories on new discoveries, findings, and studies in the scientific world from this week.

Dinosaurs evolved to birds over millions of years, changing from cold-blooded from warm-blooded in the process. A new study has reported that warm-blooded animals have larger nasal cavities than cold-blooded ones, which could help cool their larger brains (relative to head size). Specifically, it reported finding the long-sought physiological function…

A new study sheds fresh light on how ants provide food, shelter and defense for an entire colony.

The fossil sheds new light on the behavior of early mammals in relation to their dinosaur contemporaries.

It’s the first time that scientists have proved that pre-Homo-sapiens species of humans had developed sophisticated woodworking skills