The rectangular object dates to around 1350 B.C.E. and was likely created by members of the Central European Urnfield culture ...

An ancient artist applied a white substance to an illustration of a jackal, slimming down its appearance, according to ...

Researchers suggest that predation by a subspecies called Bigg's orcas might explain why members of another one, called resident orcas, stay in such large family groups ...

Researchers around the world are attempting to create a safer and more effective treatment in hopes of saving hundreds of thousands of lives ...

Snakes bite five million people each year, killing some 125,000 and disfiguring or blinding three times as many. Antivenoms ...

The USS "Monitor" was the U.S. Navy's first ironclad warship. The vessel, which sank off of North Carolina in 1862, revolutionized naval warfare ...

Smithsonian magazine covers history, science and culture in the way only it can — through a lens on the world that is insightful and grounded in richly reported stories. In There’s More to That, meet ...

"Pokémon Fossil Museum" in Chicago compares "fossil Pokémon" from the popular franchise to the real-world creatures they're based on ...

Currently, one of those now-defunct spacecraft might be plummeting toward the planet’s surface. Days ago, the U.S. Space ...

After scientists accidentally discovered that the common eastern bumblebee can withstand flood conditions, they wanted to investigate what makes that super-ability possible ...

Andrea Lius is a science journalist based in San Luis Obispo, California. Her work has appeared in Science News and the ...

Scientists have identified a strange early crocodile relative that may have looked somewhat like a flightless bird ...