The figurines were discovered in a largely unexcavated site in El Salvador. Some 2,400 years ago, they were controlled by ...

Using data from over 10,000 herbarium specimens, Smithsonian scientists uncover the urgent conservation needs of the plants, ...

After years of steady gains, a decades-long conservation program dedicated to the Kemp's ridley hits rough seas ...

Often found high in the treetops of forests in Asia, Africa and South America, monkeys can be difficult to spot. They’re ...

Few images are as relentlessly recycled as the portrait of “angry feminists” burning their bras in protest of the 1968 Miss ...

The discovery bolsters the theory that meteorite impacts played an important role in Earth's early geological history ...

After Lee's death in 2016, typescripts of her early fiction were discovered in her New York apartment. The previously unseen ...

Bats are known to chew and spit out leaves, like humans chew and spit out tobacco or coca, but this is the first continuous ...

Eurasian coots are round, black waterbirds with distinctive, chicken-like feet. Each year, these birds typically build new, ...

Folk magic goes by many names in the Appalachian Mountains: root work, granny magic, kitchen witchery, Braucherei, witchcraft ...

If Mars ever hosted microorganisms in its bygone oceans, their fossils might still be preserved in minerals—and now, we have ...

After years of research into xenotransplantation, the field is at a turning point—yet risks and ethical issues remain ...