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

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

Created in the Grotesque style, the 16th-century images—revealed by renovations at a lodge in England—mimic historic textile ...

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

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

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

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

Smithsonian curator Larry Bird shows off convention artifacts and other campaign memorabilia from the collection of the National Museum of American History (Smit ...

Scientists tested crows on their ability to recognize “geometric regularity,” a skill previously assumed to be unique to ...

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