Visitors will be able to watch scientists at work behind glass walls and see fossilized bones like whale skulls on open ...

Some believe the desert is silent. They picture a vast mute nothing, hot enough to grill a steak on your vehicle’s hood and ...

Some of the wildest legends may actually be rooted in reality. Ancient people didn’t have science textbooks, just bones in ...

Seven thousand years ago, the Chinchorro people, along the Pacific coast of South America, began to mummify their dead. Their ...

Camels (Camelus dromedarius) are even-toed ungulates that live in the desert. They are known for being able to go a long time ...

Once a month, retiree Abbey Carpenter leads volunteers through a field of dunes near the border, searching for the remains of ...

Why are there shipwrecks scattered across one of the most desolate deserts on Earth? Welcome to Namibia’s Skeleton Coast, one of the eeriest and most haunting places in the world. Stretching along the ...

Volunteers who search for missing or dead migrants in the Borderland fear that Trump’s new military zones could obstruct their humanitarian efforts ...

Dafna Gazit, Israel Antiquities Authority Carved from bone and ebony — a rare and valuable ... figurines in Christian burials in this remote desert outpost suggests cultural and economic ...

Geologically, the eroding desert sits atop major earthquake faults, and as the tectonic plates "unzip," says Murray, the looser silt, bones and other material fall into cracks and gullies.

So the search resumes. Volunteers line up a few feet apart in the desert and walk in unison, then flagging anything out of the ordinary, like bones and electronics. They place flags next to these ...