Scientists and community members in Altadena are testing ways that California species can assist efforts to rebuild ...

After multiple dusky sharks killed a swimmer off Israel’s coast this year, scientists investigated what might have triggered ...

Zhang You of the Entomological Society of China took first place with an image of a rice weevil—an agricultural pest—on a ...

A few days before "Still Life With Guitar" was supposed to go on display in Granada, staffers discovered the piece had ...

Join these caravanners on a scenic journey across the desert from snapshots taken by entrants to the Smithsonian magazine ...

Should a country financially support its artists? That’s the question that Ireland sought to answer with a pilot program that ...

The International Union for Conservation of Nature no longer considers the marine creatures endangered and has instead ...

The sidewalk imprint, dubbed “Splatatouille,” was thought to have been left by an unfortunate brown rat that met its end ...

Jim Morrison, 50, completed the historic run on October 15 as a tribute to his late partner, Hilaree Nelson, who died in an ...

Lead exposure may have spelled evolutionary success for humans—and extinction for our ancient cousins—but other scientists ...

Postpartum depression affects some one in eight women in the United States. It typically occurs in the first weeks after ...

This eerie portrait of a rare hyena earned photographer Wim van den Heever of South Africa the honor of Wildlife Photographer ...