The earliest sponges to live on the earth were soft and skeletonless pioneers - rewriting the story of the origin of animal ...

New research shows that the earliest sponges were soft bodied and lacked skeletons, explaining why their oldest fossils are ...

From alligators to ostriches, the Anthropology Department's Vertebrate Osteology Collection is one of the largest of its kind in the U.S. "We have over 12,000 vertebrate specimens in our collections.

A huge virtual gallery of museum skeletons is fully open for viewing. A large group of scientists has painstakingly created 3D reconstructions of thousands of vertebrate specimens, which are now ...

For years, a man's giant intestine was anonymously on display at a US medical museum in Philadelphia, identified only by his initials JW. Today, the donor display for Joseph Williams depicts not only ...

What would you say if I told you, there's a place in Central Florida filled to the brim with animal skeletons from around the world? Don't worry, it's not scary, it's Skeletons: Animals Unveiled. I ...

In Next of Kin at the Harvard Museum of Natural History, artist Christina Seely repurposes natural history specimens for an emotional exhibition about animal extinction. Installation view of the ...

Sponges may be ancient, but their timeline has been murky. New research suggests the earliest sponges were soft and ...