Looking again through the magnifying lens at the fossil's surface, one of us, Sabrina Curran, took a deep breath. Illuminated ...

The Smithsonian's Biggest Secret In 1886, mining engineer John T. Reid was told the Paiute legend of a giant people defeated by the natives near Lovelock, Nevada. The last of the giants met their ...

Sailing through the remote beauty of the Arctic, we stumbled upon something incredible—and something devastating. Giant whale bones told a story of nature’s majesty, while piles of human trash ...

A remarkable fossilized larva has been discovered by scientists with its brain and guts still intact. The fossilized creature ...

On April 8, a group of senators including John Fetterman, Mark Warner, Tim Kaine, and Bernie Sanders sent a joint letter to ...

This week, solve the mystery of an ancient human ancestor’s fossil, meet a new generation of dire wolves, spy April’s full ...

Tensions have mounted in Serbia ahead of a major rally in support of populist President Aleksandar Vucic as he pledged to ...

Students were shocked after human remains and bone fragments were discovered at a construction site on campus on Friday.

An ancient jawbone discovered in Taiwan belonged to an enigmatic group of early human ancestors called Denisovans, scientists reported Thursday.

Step into the artist’s fantastical “Empathic Universe” at the Museum of Arts and Design in New York, where everything seems ...

Ancient human history is now resurfacing, quite literally, from the bottom of the sea. Off the western coast of Taiwan, ...