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

Experts think the well-preserved bronze artifact was made between 500 and 450 B.C.E. It will be sold at auction on January 25 ...

The full image includes some 2.5 billion pixels compiled from observations spanning more than 1,000 orbits around Earth ...

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

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

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

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 ...

The change measured by the Mauna Loa Observatory was likely driven by wildfires and continued burning of fossil fuels, ...

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 ...

Scientists suggest captive chimpanzees engage in 'socially contagious urination'—that is, when one primate starts peeing, others quickly follow suit ...