DNA reveals that the people of Carthage, a powerful independent colony founded by the Phoenicians, had little genetic ...

The popular salamanders are nearly extinct in the wild, where they are confined to a small system of canals in Mexico City.

Artworks by the Latvian-American Abstract Expressionist have been damaged before, but repairs have added up to hundreds of ...

After Paloma’s mother, the French painter Françoise Gilot, split with Picasso in the 1950s, she wrote a memoir about the ...

As wildfire becomes an increasingly lethal force that’s remaking broad swaths of California, people and animals alike are in ...

The Smithsonian returns with its 5th annual National Education Summit, a free three-day conference for educators preparing to ...

Across his video and painting work, he deploys subtle and sophisticated shifts in tone, texture and surface, showing how the ...

Created by artist Jennie C. Jones, the new exhibition features a trio of towering musical instruments made from concrete and aluminum ...

Conservationists recently introduced 15 of the polka-dotted marsupials into a protected area of New South Wales ...

Archaeologists were preparing for the construction of a new housing development when they found more than 100 equine skeletons dating to the second century C.E.

Cooking the famous, creamy pasta sauce is as delicious as it is frustrating, because the cheese tends to clump when exposed ...

First-class passenger Archibald Gracie wrote the missive shortly after settling into his cabin on the doomed vessel. It just ...