The HMS "Hind," later renamed the "Earl of Chatham," was a frigate in the British Royal Navy before it was repurposed as a ...

A study examining fossilized droppings reveals the kākāpō has faced a decline in the diversity of its parasites—and that ...

Researchers thought leaf-toed geckos were locally extinct on Rábida Island, so they were thrilled to find several of the ...

European flat oysters have nearly disappeared from the region. Now, researchers are helping them recover by depositing the ...

Rocks found along the Colorado River in Arizona turned out to contain fossilized fragments of soft-bodied creatures, ...

Artists such as Rembrandt, the Pre-Raphaelites and Georgian caricaturists used their craft to examine the morality and ...

As the Smithsonian presents the aviator’s restored Vega in Washington, a special replica of the aircraft quietly re-emerges ...

Laurie Gwen Shapiro is a journalist, documentary filmmaker and the author of The Aviator and the Showman: Amelia Earhart, George Putnam, and the Marriage That Made an American Icon.

Scientists discovered that swollen-thorn acacias invested more in ant rewards during a drought, suggesting that mutualistic ...

The apex predators, restored to the park in 1995, appear to be keeping the local population of plant-eating elk in check, ...

A thin piece of gold reached 33,740 degrees Fahrenheit, which is more than 14 times higher than its melting point, by being rapidly heated—and it didn't melt ...

The winners of the Mangrove Photography Awards shed light on the ecologically valuable but highly threatened coastal ...