Over thousands of years, humans from Eurasia trekked more than 12,400 miles to eventually reach the southernmost tip of South ...

Researcher Vladimir Dinets watched the bird repeatedly sneak behind a row of cars to ambush its unsuspecting prey ...

More than a millennium ago, a Maya community collapsed in the face of a devastating drought. One writer joined an intrepid ...

Lamb and Smit approach with their gear and check vitals, then begin measuring, sampling and hoisting the grizzly’s ...

These seafaring shots are harbored in the archives of the Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest You don’t have to love water or ...

British officers and crew members set out in search of the Northwest Passage on HMS "Erebus" and HMS "Terror." None returned ...

The Zidanku Silk Manuscripts were smuggled into the United States in the 1940s. Scholars say they provide remarkable insights ...

At a site known as Natural Trap Cave, a team of scientists are rappelling down to uncover the secrets of what the Earth was ...

The Archive Center at the National Museum of the American Indian presents a new exhibition that can help "interrupt the ...

For a new study, physicists visualized and quantified the tear-producing droplets that get expelled from onions when they're ...

The adaptation appears to help the fish cope with high temperatures, since individuals and breeding pairs that shrank ...

A new preprint suggests that an ancient Chinese star catalog dates to 355 B.C.E. But other researchers aren't convinced, ...