Joe Rosenthal’s iconic photos from Iwo Jima helped the United States raise $26 billion for the war and served as the basis ...

The scientific breakthrough, announced on this day in 1997, proved that geneticists could clone an adult mammal, giving rise ...

The juvenile gray seal recently weaned off his mother's milk and ventured five miles into the coastal Connecticut city ...

Unpredictable bursts of light are pulsing from the debris surrounding Sagittarius A*, offering new insights into the ...

Spix’s disc-winged bats shrieked when they were first shown mealworms, a new food for them. Were they alarmed, or were they ...

Alaskans have been gathering in the tiny coastal town of Valdez to celebrate the art of climbing ice Alaska’s hardiest ...

In Japanese folklore, appearances of these elusive marine creatures dubbed ‘doomsday fish’ are believed to foreshadow ...

These images from the Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest show what makes the City of Angels and its next-door neighborhoods ...

Fossils are providing more and more clues about how dinosaurs attracted one another and reproduced, which contributed to ...

"Cristian en el Amor de Calle" by Costa Rican artist Matías Sauter Morera will appear in the museum's upcoming exhibition, ...

Once abundant throughout southeastern Australia, the critically endangered plains-wanderer is now on the brink of extinction ...

The creature is being trafficked across Africa and Asia to fuel a steady demand for their scales, an ingredient in unproven ...