Mercury concentrations in fig trees could provide useful information about mining activity in the rainforest over time ...

Historical accounts of vast ocean waters glowing in the dark go back hundreds of years, and researchers are still trying to ...

Ornithologist Bruce Beehler tracks down what he calls the “Magnificent Seven,” a charismatic group of migratory birds, in his ...

Ronin, a 5-year-old African giant pouched rat, has found 109 land mines and 15 other unexploded ordnances in Cambodia ...

The animals graze the vegetation into a picturesque turf, fertilize the soil with their dung and disperse seeds over large ...

To thank America for its support during the war, France sent a boxcar stuffed with gifts to each state. But in the late 1950s ...

Florida land boom. But false advertising and natural disasters thwarted many settlers' visions of striking it rich in the ...

One of the wall paintings discovered at the Ashes, a Tudor-era guest house in northeastern England, depicts a dog's head. Historic England Archive For over two decades, Jen and Richard Arkell have ...

In preparation for the summer road trip season, historian Allen Pietrobon joins Smithsonian Associates on April 28 to discuss ...

A butter lamb has taken center stage on my family’s Easter table for as long as I can remember. Each year at Easter, my ...

Corinthia Black studies the anatomical features of fishes and spiders to understand how life on Earth takes shape ...

Discovered in the ruins of Tikal, the altar sheds light on strained relations between the Maya city and Teotihuacán—which was located more than 600 miles away ...