More than a millennium ago, a Maya community collapsed in the face of a devastating drought. One writer joined an intrepid ...

The Haenyeo, a group of skilled divers on Jeju Island, plunge beneath the ocean’s surface without any breathing equipment, ...

Over thousands of years, humans from Eurasia trekked more than 12,400 miles to eventually reach the southernmost tip of South ...

Researcher Vladimir Dinets watched the bird repeatedly sneak behind a row of cars to ambush its unsuspecting prey ...

The adaptation appears to help the fish cope with high temperatures, since individuals and breeding pairs that shrank ...

British officers and crew members set out in search of the Northwest Passage on HMS "Erebus" and HMS "Terror." None returned ...

Lamb and Smit approach with their gear and check vitals, then begin measuring, sampling and hoisting the grizzly’s ...

Working with local Indigenous people, biologist František Vejmělka spent six months surveying the creatures that live on ...

A new study highlights the potential of amber fossils to capture evidence of powerful, prehistoric ocean waves ...

These seafaring shots are harbored in the archives of the Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest You don’t have to love water or ...

The Scopes “monkey trial” garnered international attention, and the battle that was fought continues in some form in other ...

The Zidanku Silk Manuscripts were smuggled into the United States in the 1940s. Scholars say they provide remarkable insights ...