Chinese scientists in the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region of southern China used 3D technology to reconstruct the face of a ...

New technologies today often involve electronic devices that are smaller and smarter than before. During the Middle Paleolithic, when Neanderthals were modern humans' neighbors, new technologies meant ...

The discovery of a 480-million-year-old sponge in China has revolutionized scientists’ understanding of early reef ecosystems ...

On Wednesday, March 26, artist Brian Engh visited the Virginia Tech Museum of Geosciences to give a lecture on paleoart.

International scientists have uncovered the oldest known phosphatic stromatoporoid sponge, dating back approximately 480 million years to the Early Ordovician, in South China.

The tool we've identified is called a Quina scraper. This type of stone tool is well known from archaeological sites in ...

Archaeologists have thought that ancient people in East Asia completely skipped the Middle Paleolithic. Our discovery challenges the long-standing notion that while ancient people in Europe and Africa ...

TrowelBlazers, co-founded by Tori Herridge, aims to spotlight forgotten women in science — but has it become more about ...

The museum hopes that after learning about the planet’s prehistoric past, people will do more to preserve Earth’s future.

A newly identified parasitic wasp that buzzed and flew among dinosaurs 99 million years ago evolved a bizarre mechanism, ...

Scientists have debated where Prototaxites belong in the tree of life for over a century, but now a new study suggests it ...

The museum is a 44,000-square-foot facility overlooking a 4-acre fossil-filled former sand quarry in Mantua, Gloucester ...