the Java Man case pushes restitution into the realm of the natural history museum — where it hasn’t been much of an issue until now. It also asks a new question: Who owns prehistory?

From the legendary Hope Diamond to a rainbow of colorful gemstones, a multigenerational bond between the Winston family and ...

While the word "fossils" may have once once conjured images of elderly, nearsighted scientists toiling in silence in dank, ...

The man who bought it is letting the storied ... as awe-struck as we are by Apex," President of the American Museum of Natural History Sean M. Decatur said in a statement. Fossilized poop: Poo ...

Dippy – a complete cast of a diplodocus skeleton – is Britain’s most famous dinosaur. It has resided at the Natural History ...

a geologist at the Natural History Museum, discovered that the Piltdown remains were only 50,000 years old. This eliminated the possibility of the Piltdown Man being the missing link between humans ...

Jim Pollard poses for a photo Feb. 5 at his Southern Minnesota Museum of Natural History in Blue Earth in front of a replica of a Lythronax, which lived during the Late Cretaceous period.

For those looking to step back in time, the Arizona Museum of Natural History in downtown Mesa offers ... complicated world of the man behind him: ‘I didn’t see him as a victim’ Mary Lou ...

From a digital aquarium wall to an earthquake simulator, the massive $150 million renovation and expansion at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History promises ... world of the man behind him ...

The Manchester Society for the Promotion of Natural History was formed in 1821 with the hope of ... Boyd Dawkins was famous as a palaeontologist, but also as an archaeologist of early man. The museum ...