The Denver Museum of Nature and Science has sent researchers everywhere from North Dakota to Antarctica in search of fossils to study and display. It turns out they could have stayed home. The museum ...

Hello parents, teachers and students! If you’re looking for a fun way to explore how fossils are made, check out these gummy worms and bread fossils. Be sure to check out GMSA@9 on Wednesdays, when ...

Biologists identify a new species of "living fossil" chiton through cutting-edge mitochondrial genome sequencing.

A violent storm may have sent two baby pterosaurs spiraling to their deaths in a lagoon about 150 million years ago, based on a new analysis of the tiny, astonishingly well-preserved fossils. This ...

Scientists have uncovered new clues about some of Earth’s earliest fish, shedding light on the ancient origins of vertebrates ...

A near-complete fossil from Patagonia has finally cracked open the mysterious evolutionary history of one of prehistory's strangest dinosaur groups ...

A Colorado museum hit the Jurassic jackpot. A team of scientists at the Denver Museum of Nature and Science discovered a dinosaur fossil hundreds of feet beneath the building's parking lot earlier ...

If Earth were a giant oven, sedimentary rocks would be among its finest cakes. Almost all sedimentary rocks tell the story of how they were baked over millions of years. Fragments of existing rock ...

Ice cores, tree rings, and satellite data converge on a striking truth: Earth’s rapid changes today are unlike anything seen in human history. When most people hear the term Earth science, they think ...

The Denver Museum of Nature and Science already houses a stunning collection of some 4.3 million relics spanning eras, fields, and cultures. As it happens, the museum is sitting on even deeper history ...

DENVER (KDVR) — Yabba Dabba Doo! The Denver Museum of Nature & Science announced on Wednesday that it discovered a nearly 70-million-year-old dinosaur fossil underneath its parking lot in City Park in ...