Last fall, scientists announced the discovery of a new species of early human, Homo naledi, deep in an underground cave in South Africa. The ancient fossils remain locked away in Johannesburg, but now ...

Browse the exhibits in your nearest natural history museum and you will find a medley of different specimens, from contemporary insects to extinct species, microscopic organisms, and even ...

A scanned image of the skeleton of the world’s most endangered marine animal, the vaquita, is now available on MorphoSource, a publicly accessible data archive. (Photo courtesy of Jennifer Crespo) The ...

At MorphoSource.org, playing with fossils is not only allowed, it’s encouraged. The online database is home to oodles of digital 3-D scans of bones from both extinct and modern-day creatures. Anyone ...

For the first time, the remarkable features of Australia's unique wildlife—from platypus, bilby, kangaroo, koala and emu to mammals gone extinct—are available for all to see, via their bones and ...

The fossilized bones of Homo naledi, in a special vault at at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. Via an online collection developed by Duke University’s Doug Boyer, anyone can make ...