While scientists have observed animals assisting their relatives, a new study reveals that many superb starlings also form ...

Tim Friede has injected himself with snake venom hundreds of times, and subjected himself to more than 200 bites. Now, ...

The insects from this group were last seen in 2008 and will appear across the eastern U.S. for a brief, dramatic frenzy of ...

The founding of a research institute 100 years ago has helped to provide insight on Yiddish culture in the United States and ...

When Robert Prevost was elected pope this week, he chose one of the most popular papal names. The lives of the Pope Leos who ...

Research teams studying bats and birds gather in Panama’s Soberanía National Park to celebrate the launch of a long-term ...

An earthen enclosure called the Octagon is drawing much-deserved attention to the state’s history-filled mounds built some ...

Witold Pilecki smuggled reports about Germany's war crimes to the Allies, urging them to stop the atrocities at Auschwitz by ...

For the study, researchers sequenced the DNA of 13 present-day members of the tribe. They compared that genetic material to ...

These shots from the Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest show just why butterflies have floated into our hearts ...

The National Museum of Natural History contains the petrified remains of ancient trees that were once the centerpiece of a ...

Jean-Guillaume Olette-Pelletier says he has identified seven sets of crypto-hieroglyphs on the 75-foot-tall structure, which ...