By Dan Gunderson, Minnesota Public Radio News A small storefront on Main Street in Blue Earth has been home to many businesses since it was built in 1892. Its creaky wooden floor is now covered with ...

Jim Pollard has loved fossil collecting since he was a kid. Now 70, he’s opened a natural history museum in a Blue Earth ...

With the help of a student at Ringling College and a Fort Myers cold case detective, a skull only known as John Doe, has been ...

Munch’s little seen portraits prove to be remarkable odes to the people who influenced him, as well as wicked takedowns ...

One halcyon spring day in 1903, the 69-year-old anatomist and naturalist Dr. James Bell Pettigrew sat at the top of a sloping ...

Mike Butkus is an award-winning concept artist who has worked on over 5,000 games, films, TV series, books and toy designs ...

As Western art’s most memorable utterance of existential pain ... with his Self-Portrait with Skeleton Arm, and with ghoulish ...

For me and many others, contemplating death has clarified what matters. These curiosity-based exercises will get you started ...

Now, we may have some answers, thanks to a well-preserved 62 million-year-old skeleton. This particular ... and hind limbs. By the anatomy of its limbs and claws, the team believes that it lived ...

“Damn it, Matternes, it would be much better if you made your paintings correspond to the skeletal mounts in the hall ... He worked on the art for 12 years, studying the anatomy of a human that still ...

The piece is a slice of ancient time that is so lovingly detailed it seems familiar, a magic that artist Jay Matternes has brought to paleo and wildlife art through a long and storied career.