Koch Hall of Human Origins,” which opened 15 years ago. Smithsonian's Human Origins Program. What does it mean to be human ...

Mantle's Cave is located in Dinosaur National Monument in northwestern Colorado, just south of the Yampa River. It is a large, vaulted, north-facing cave 100 m long x 40 m wide x 33 m in height, ...

14,700 years ago, in a cave in Somerset, our ancestors were eating other people. Museum research reveals these Ice Age Britons weren't eating human flesh out of necessity but as part of a ritual. 'The ...

There is no light deep in the rocky world of caves - but there is an abundance of animals specially adapted to the challenge of life in total darkness. There are caves all over the planet, but only a ...

These three figurines do not come from Mantle's Cave, but were among twelve anthropomorphic bird and animal figurines found at Marigold Cave (5MF9), also in Yampa Canyon. Marigold Cave was explored by ...

Head to the Natural History Museum to learn about the formation of the region's parks, mountain ranges, lakes, and basins, as well as exhibits on Utah's Native American tribes, anthropology ...