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

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

From a research submersible, scientists saw hardened lava, dead tube worms and orange flashes from an eruption in the East ...

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

Local birding expert David Sonneborn took me out birding a couple of times, and we managed to see Hudsonian Godwits in the ...

The two vessels had been trafficking hundreds of enslaved Africans when a navigational error led them astray. They sank off the coast of Costa Rica in the 18th century ...

Prior to his final defeat at the Battle of Waterloo, the French ruler gave the saber to one of his most trusted generals, ...

Bruce M. Beehler. BRUCE M. BEEHLER is an ornithologist, naturalist, conservationist, lecturer, and author of nature books including North on the Wing: Travels with the Songbird Mi ...

A new exhibition celebrates the often-overlooked endpapers of more than 50 works of children's literature ranging from the ...

Researchers suggest powerful bursts from magnetars—collapsed stars with strong magnetic fields—may have contributed up to 10 ...

Zoo officials are looking for experts to help preserve and digitize the decaying film canisters, which date to between the ...

Researchers looked at poetry dating as far back as the Tang dynasty to find that the Yangtze finless porpoise’s range has ...