Few plants are more celebrated in Egyptian mythology than the blue lotus, a stunning water lily that stars in some of ...

Ice cores in freezers, dinosaurs on display, fish in jars, birds in boxes, human remains and ancient artifacts from long-gone ...

Koch Hall of Human Origins,” which opened 15 years ago. Smithsonian's Human Origins Program. What does it mean to be human ...

Every field has its own standard for what data gets recorded for specimens archived in a museum collection, which can make ...

The remains have helped to fill in gaps in the fossil record and move science closer to understanding human evolution in ...

University of Arizona Professor David Soren's excavation at the site of a fourth century Mediterranean earthquake revealed 3 skeletons — 2 adults and a baby — crushed together under stone.

The Friends of Key West Library is set to conclude their Speaker Series for 2025. Closing the season is Dr. Rod McIntosh, the ...

This weekend, the Philadelphia Orchestra premieres a piece by composer Gabriela Lena Frank. “Picaflor: A Future Myth” is based on the mythology of the Incan people from the Andes region of South ...

The Anthropology Club began its spring semester with an interactive pottery reconstruction activity, bringing students together to engage in a hands-on learning experience. By Katelynn Humbles The ...

Members of the Field Museum’s labor union and their supporters rallied outside the natural history museum on Wednesday to ...

Social anthropology is the subdiscipline of anthropology that investigates the cultural properties of human societies. Topics include cultural norms, morals, laws and customs, and there is a ...

James “Jim” Ferguson, a professor of anthropology at Stanford, died on Feb. 12 after battling a long illness. Ferguson was 65 years old. A lifelong scholar of anthropology, Ferguson played a ...