The Board of Trustees has appointed Kirk Johnson as the Museum’s next president and CEO.

Once again, we’ve hit our stretch goals with a little time to spare. Thank you all again for your amazing support!In lieu of adding a formal stretch goal, we’re sha...

Save the Sternberg Museum of Natural History from Closure

Tenure Track Assistant Professor / Associate Professor, and Curator of Mammals at Natural History Museum Denmark The Natural History Museum Denmark wishes to ap

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A program created to place migrant children with relatives has become a pipeline for deportation arrests.

Federal agencies that terminated more than a thousand research grants at the University of California last year admitted that they used keywords related to diversity, gender, vaccine hesitancy and COV...

Utah's biggest national monuments have been the object of political football for years.

A study on COVID-19 vaccine effectiveness has been published after being blocked from a government health journal.

Michael Scurr, a volunteer at Britain’s National Archives, has discovered a rare early copy of the Declaration of Independence.

Imagine an American organization that convenes scientific experts not to advance any ideology or interest but to provide the nation with a clear understanding of complex problems. Imagine this body wo...

Pinning down the most titanic of the large sauropod dinosaurs is not an easy task, since the odds were generally against the biggest ones being buried and preserved

The National Science Foundation (NSF) has eliminated its postdoctoral fellowship funding for Earth scientists.

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The Geologic Mapping and Paleontology Program of the Utah Geological Survey (UGS) is seeking a full time permanent geologic mapper.  This is a un...

Here we report on the anatomical re-investigation of a Late Pleistocene (Middle Würmian Interstadial, MIS 3, ca. 40–50 ka BP) perinatal woolly mammoth excavated in 1890-91 from Niederweningen, Switzer...

The tetrapod water–land transition has been studied for more than a century, but questions about the locomotor function of early tetrapod limbs still remain. The limb and girdle skeletons of stem tet...

Wildfire was a consequence — not a cause — of widespread marine anoxia during the Late Devonian mass extinction.

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Budget proposal would also curb federal payments for scientific publishing.

Fossil bite marks provide insights into trophic and agonistic behaviors, but they can be difficult to associate with a specific actor. Finding embedded teeth, while rare, removes this ambiguity. He...

A non-titanosaur Somphospondyli specimen unearthed from Early Cretaceous (Aptian) deposits of north-eastern Brazil allowed the establishment of a new taxon, Dasosaurus tocantinensis gen. et sp. nov...