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

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

Over thousands of years, humans from Eurasia trekked more than 12,400 miles to eventually reach the southernmost tip of South America, a new genetic investigation suggests ...

Hundreds of millions of years ago, fish had sensory features on their exoskeletons that contained dentine, the material that makes our teeth sensitive today ...

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

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

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

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

A new study highlights the potential of amber fossils to capture evidence of powerful, prehistoric ocean waves ...

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

At 89 years old, the Historic Hangar is the oldest building on CLT property. In this image, staff and volunteers back a Piedmont Airlines DC-3 into the newly restored hangar. Dron ...

Working with local Indigenous people, biologist František Vejmělka spent six months surveying the creatures that live on ...