Rocks found along the Colorado River in Arizona turned out to contain fossilized fragments of soft-bodied creatures, ...

A study examining fossilized droppings reveals the kākāpō has faced a decline in the diversity of its parasites—and that ...

The 62-acre settlement was likely established in the fourth century B.C.E. Researchers think it may have served as a major ...

European flat oysters have nearly disappeared from the region. Now, researchers are helping them recover by depositing the ...

Researchers thought leaf-toed geckos were locally extinct on Rábida Island, so they were thrilled to find several of the ...

Artists such as Rembrandt, the Pre-Raphaelites and Georgian caricaturists used their craft to examine the morality and ...

As the Smithsonian presents the aviator’s restored Vega in Washington, a special replica of the aircraft quietly re-emerges ...

The HMS "Hind," later renamed the "Earl of Chatham," was a frigate in the British Royal Navy before it was repurposed as a ...

The apex predators, restored to the park in 1995, appear to be keeping the local population of plant-eating elk in check, ...

Scientists discovered that swollen-thorn acacias invested more in ant rewards during a drought, suggesting that mutualistic ...

Laurie Gwen Shapiro is a journalist, documentary filmmaker and the author of The Aviator and the Showman: Amelia Earhart, George Putnam, and the Marriage That Made an American Icon.

The winners of the Mangrove Photography Awards shed light on the ecologically valuable but highly threatened coastal ...