A new study highlights the potential of amber fossils to capture evidence of powerful, prehistoric ocean waves ...

More than a millennium ago, a Maya community collapsed in the face of a devastating drought. One writer joined an intrepid ...

Archaeologists say they've found the ruins of a soccer field in southwest Scotland that date to the 17th century ...

Working with local Indigenous people, biologist František Vejmělka spent six months surveying the creatures that live on ...

The Haenyeo, a group of skilled divers on Jeju Island, plunge beneath the ocean’s surface without any breathing equipment, ...

Researcher Vladimir Dinets watched the bird repeatedly sneak behind a row of cars to ambush its unsuspecting prey ...

The tiny Carnarvon flapjack octopus is the latest of ten species described by Australian scientists after a 2022 research ...

These seafaring shots are harbored in the archives of the Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest You don’t have to love water or ...

The Scopes “monkey trial” garnered international attention, and the battle that was fought continues in some form in other ...

Over thousands of years, humans from Eurasia trekked more than 12,400 miles to eventually reach the southernmost tip of South ...

The adaptation appears to help the fish cope with high temperatures, since individuals and breeding pairs that shrank ...

At a site known as Natural Trap Cave, a team of scientists are rappelling down to uncover the secrets of what the Earth was ...