15 Years Later, the National Museum of Natural History Is Still Asking What It Means to Be Human The museum’s groundbreaking Hall of Human Origins centers around the adaptations that set early ...

In this video, Higham shares his research. Briana Pobiner, paleoanthropologist and educator at Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History, moderates the program, which aired September 15, 2022, ...

Scientists have discovered what they believe to be an 1.8-million-year-old jawbone from an early species of human.

According to Finestone, Nyayanga stones are significantly older than other known examples of ancient stone transport. Previously, the oldest evidence of hominins moving rocks over significant ...

Brain growth slowed down about 300,000 years ago due to energetic and climate pressures, according to a study published in ...

Various institutions in Gauteng offer exhibitions on human evolution and fossils, including the University of the Witwatersrand, the Ditsong National Museum of Natural History, Maropeng Cradle of ...

The museum reports having hundreds of consultations with Native American groups and says it is also returning 90 objects.

Naomi Greenberg is a Science Writing Intern with the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History. She translates natural history research for general consumption in her writing for ...

Researchers have dated the mysterious skull from Petralona Cave in Greece to 300,000 years ago and concluded that the fossil ...

The Cleveland Museum of Natural History is celebrating the unveiling of its $150 million renovation and expansion. Not to mention, transformation.