Analysis of the fossil suggests that the only two egg-laying mammals, platypuses and land-based echidnas, both descended from ...

After Paloma’s mother, the French painter Françoise Gilot, split with Picasso in the 1950s, she wrote a memoir about the ...

DNA reveals that the people of Carthage, a powerful independent colony founded by the Phoenicians, had little genetic ...

Across his video and painting work, he deploys subtle and sophisticated shifts in tone, texture and surface, showing how the ...

Even compared to chimpanzees, one of our closest relatives, humans' scrapes and cuts tend to stick around for more than twice ...

As wildfire becomes an increasingly lethal force that’s remaking broad swaths of California, people and animals alike are in ...

Created by artist Jennie C. Jones, the new exhibition features a trio of towering musical instruments made from concrete and aluminum ...

The Smithsonian returns with its 5th annual National Education Summit, a free three-day conference for educators preparing to ...

Cooking the famous, creamy pasta sauce is as delicious as it is frustrating, because the cheese tends to clump when exposed ...

After the house suffered extensive fire damage in 1940, generations of the Howard family have faithfully restored parts of ...

Archaeologists were preparing for the construction of a new housing development when they found more than 100 equine skeletons dating to the second century C.E.

It could take years for archaeologists to properly excavate and preserve the delicate wooden vessel, which likely became ...