Researchers previously assumed that some of the graves at the site were royal burials. A new study presents a different ...

Paleontologists found a group of four-legged Triassic creatures preserved in the same bone bed—but they don’t know what ...

The black and slightly orange Bigg’s killer whale was spotted swimming with its mother, Sedna, in the Salish Sea ...

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The family handed the scarab over to the Israel Antiquities Authority, which plans to display it in an upcoming exhibition.

The SMITHSONIAN ASTROPHYSICAL OBSERVATORY is a part of the Smithsonian Institution which, in conjunction with the Harvard ...

A new project called Digital Delacroix is training cutting-edge technology on the French painter's style to unravel the lost artwork's secrets ...

If there were any contender for a real-life equivalent to the Oliphaunts of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle Earth, it would be ...

A group of five adolescent male lions - dubbed the Musketeers - are wandering the desert looking to find their own kingdom. They come across a lioness, but not all … A Clever Cuttlefish Goes in for ...

Lavoisier had assumed control of France’s national gunpowder production. Considered the founder of the Chemical Revolution, ...

A hit into this crowd was good for two bases,” the reporter noted.  Before the game even started, a circus mood prevailed: ...

The January issue featured a story about the village in Sardinia where my paternal grandfather was born (“ Rites of Winter ,” ...