A new exhibition spotlights the Spanish artist's printmaking talents, which he began honing in his 20s. In the decades that ...
The team was analyzing the structure of a royal palace’s gate when they discovered 12 statues made out of sandstone ...
Unlike other birds, which get pigments from their diets, parrots produce their own—but scientists never fully understood the ...
The public tours of the historic residence hadn't been overhauled in decades. For two years, the first lady's office has been ...
The deep penetrations suggest that the feline was pressing its claws into the clay, a behavior sometimes known as "making ...
The viral king penguin chick at Sea Life Melbourne Aquarium is beginning to molt, a process that will give him his distinctive adult plumage ...
Pedestrians in Montreal, Grand Rapids and other locations can time-travel thanks to installations that map historical scenes ...
These images from the Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest show how communities in Mexico and beyond mark Día de los Muertos.
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As a child, the future president acquired a marine animal's skull, which became the first specimen in his natural history collection Peter Zablocki In a new book, a curator at England's Natural ...
In a global study, scientists recorded themselves singing and playing music from their own cultures to examine the evolution of song Christian Thorsberg The new research found bonobos were three ...