The museum on the former site of the Chart House restaurant will be modern and unlike most museums, its backers say.

Take a dive into the museum’s marine mammal collection and learn how a rare North American whale is racing against extinction Emma Saaty This plate of baleen came from the critically endangered Rice’s ...

It's a discovery 65 million years in the making. Researchers at Denver Museum of Nature and Science discovered a new mammal species in Corral Bluffs east of Colorado Springs. What makes the discovery ...

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The collection of mammals under the care of the Smithsonian was begun in 1850 when Spencer F. Baird, the newly appointed Assistant Secretary, came to the Institution and brought his private collection ...

MISSOULA, Mont. — It's a low-key museum that doesn't get a lot of public attention. It's possible you may never have heard of it. But the Philip L. Wright Zoological Museum at the University of ...

Albert Ervin, head of member services at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences, talks with Elizabeth Gardner about extreme mammals on display at the museum. Albert Ervin, head of member ...

A Museums of Western Colorado volunteer’s discovery in 2018 of a jawbone fragment in a block of sandstone previously collected outside Rangely has contributed to scientists discovering a previously ...