After sitting for over 40 years in a museum collection, a set of small vertebrae has been identified as belonging to a new ...

Plant fossils dating back 55 to 40 million years ago, during the Eocene epoch reveal details about the warmer and wetter climate. These conditions meant there were palms at the North and South Pole ...

A newly identified fossil snake reveals clues about early advanced snake evolution. Its mixed traits highlight an ancient branch of the caenophidian family tree. More than forty years after it was ...

Around 56 million years ago, Earth suddenly got much hotter. Over about 5,000 years, the amount of carbon in the atmosphere ...

This specimen, Lithophotina floccusa, was found and officially described by TDA Cockerell (Curator CU Museum of Natural History) in 1908 as the first fossil mantis known from the United States 1. This ...

The evolutionary journey from primitive plesiadapiforms to early primates during the Paleocene and Eocene epochs represents a critical chapter in mammalian history. Fossil records from these periods ...

Spinescence (a general term for the phenomena of spines, prickles, and thorns on plants) is an important functional trait shared by numerous plant families worldwide and mainly provides physical ...

The CU Museum is closed until January 8, 2026. During this time, collection visits will be available by appointment and other special access requests will be considered on a case-by-case basis. Please ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Evaniid wasps develop as solitary egg predators within the oothecae of cockroaches. Fossil evaniids are relatively common compared with most ...

Why it's incredible: The valley holds hundreds of primitive whale skeletons, some of which have "feet." Whale Valley is a region of the Egyptian Sahara desert that is peppered with archaic whale ...