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

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

Lamb and Smit approach with their gear and check vitals, then begin measuring, sampling and hoisting the grizzly’s ...

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

The Zidanku Silk Manuscripts were smuggled into the United States in the 1940s. Scholars say they provide remarkable insights ...

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

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

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

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

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

After years of excavation and study, archaeologists have restored the Küsterberg burial site to its original layout to ...

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