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

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

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

The Archive Center at the National Museum of the American Indian presents a new exhibition that can help "interrupt the ...

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

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 America, a new genetic investigation suggests ...

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

Angler Christopher Thuss stumbled upon the scuttled tugboat "J.C. Ames," which was located just nine feet below the surface off the coast of Manitowoc, Wisconsin ...

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

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

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