Scientists suggest meat consumption was pivotal to humans' development of larger brains, but the transition probably didn't ...

Made by a printer in New Hampshire, this 1776 broadside edition was created to disseminate America's founding document to the ...

The upland moa was likely drawn to the fungi because of their resemblance to berries, scientists say, allowing the creature ...

I wasn’t necessarily looking to purchase a place listed on the National Register for Historic Places,” says Knight, “but when ...

The ancient artwork was uncovered during excavations at Pompeii in the 19th century. Now, researchers are conducting a long, ...

Roughly 201 million years ago, drastic changes extinguished many forms of life and led to conditions that allowed the ...

A new book spotlights Frances Perkins' efforts to challenge the United States' restrictive immigration policies as President ...

President Donald Trump signed a slew of executive orders on the first day of his second term in office on Monday, and among ...

Ivan Kashinsky has traveled the world for Smithsonian magazine, but when disaster struck earlier this month, he rushed home ...

The rare papers were part of a larger collection from rock journalist Al Aronowitz, a close friend of Dylan’s in the 1960s ...

For more than 150 years, scientists have debated whether Prototaxites—which stood roughly 24 feet tall and 3 feet wide—were an early lichen or fungus, like a “giant mushroom” ...

Researchers tracking female bats in central Europe found they migrated much farther in a single night than previously thought ...