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Vectipelta barretti is named after the Natural History Museum’s Professor Paul Barrett

Vectipelta barretti is named after Natural History Museum’s Professor Paul Barrett.

Some of the world’s most popular museums are natural history collections: Think of dinosaur fossils, gemstones and preserved animals. Herbaria – collections of pressed, dried plant specimens – are a less-known but important type of natural history collection. There are some 400 million botanical specimens stored across over 3,500 herbaria…

The remains of more than 15 individuals belonging to a previously unknown species of extinct human, dubbed Homo naledi, have been found in a cave. However, whether H. naledi buried their dead or created rock art is in dispute, based on their brain size.

India hosts well-preserved volcanic and sedimentary rocks as old as 3.5 billion years, and has similar geologic history to parts of South Africa and Australia

Practical effects from 1993 can invoke far more awe than today’s weightlesss CGI blobs.

After almost 30 years of Jurassic Park history, Ariana Richards has revisited her memorable moment of fear.

Paleoanthropologist Lee Berger claims that the oldest burial site in the world, dating back to some 200,000 to 300,000 years ago, is in South Africa. He believes the primitive Homo naledi species buried their dead and carved symbols on tomb walls. The findings challenge the current understanding of human evolution.

A group of mastodons roamed around the Midwest about 10,000 to 20,000 in a different era, but the age of the bones are unknown.