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Posted Mon, 04/05/2021 - 11:03am

Citizen Science and Digital Transcription in the time of COVID

Volunteers are helping to transcribe scientific information, including hand-written field notes, paper catalogues, specimen labels, and more.

Posted Thu, 02/18/2021 - 10:35am

Learn more about some fascinating new research by NHMU's Curator Tyler Faith and his colleagues.

Posted Fri, 02/12/2021 - 2:35pm

Learn more about these iconic fossils.

Posted Mon, 01/25/2021 - 6:30am

Paleontologist Pete Makovicky muses on the epic history of fossil discoveries from Antarctica.

Posted Wed, 12/09/2020 - 9:00am

The research of NHMU's Chief Curator Randy Irmis and his colleagues is published in the journal Nature.

Posted Sun, 11/22/2020 - 10:58am

A collaborative effort is revealing which plants were important to people who have lived in Bears Ears over millennia.

Posted Fri, 09/25/2020 - 12:38pm

Biodiversity Discovery: a new genus and species of spittlebug from the Amazonian rainforest.

Posted Wed, 09/16/2020 - 5:12am

A primer on the region, the fossils found so far, those that are likely to be there, and why it matters.

Posted Mon, 07/13/2020 - 9:00am

Geologists and paleontologists have good reason to suspect that climate change might play a role in dinosaur origins.

Posted Thu, 07/09/2020 - 5:47pm

A new study finds that cats are susceptible to COVID-19, but there's no evidence they can spread the disease to us.