If you’re looking for a beautiful view, Denmark has more than a few to enjoy. Take a look. A Note to our Readers Smithsonian ...

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Many spine-bearing creatures, or vertebrates, have a curious bit of tissue deep in their brains called the pineal gland. It ...

The collection includes shirts, sunglasses, a signed copy of South Africa's first post-apartheid constitution and a prison ...

Wildlife officials successfully captured the young male, known as 157M, after he wandered into the northern Pacific Heights ...

Researchers thought that just one subspecies of cheetah lived in Saudi Arabia long ago. But an unexpected discovery seems to ...

The schooner "Lawrence N. McKenzie" was transporting a load of oranges from Puerto Rico to New York City when it wrecked on ...

One of its co-curators wants historians to expand on the display and “write a proper history” of this artistry ...

In the mid-1800s, before the Civil War, Thomas White fled his enslavement in Maryland for freedom. It was a risky escape, one that involved a horseback ride under the cover of darkness, abolitionists ...

Synthetic pheromones may be a promising tool in attracting and culling troublesome crown-of-thorns starfish, which rapidly ...

A new book by author Julian Sancton explores the lengthy quest to find the Spanish galleon—and the political firestorm that ...

Located in Malawi, the site could also be the world's earliest example of an in situ cremation pyre for an adult, according ...