The torso of the bronze sculpture depicting Septimius Severus was repatriated last year, and a Copenhagen museum has now ...

Only seven spade-toothed whales have ever been identified, and the species has never been seen alive. After one washed ashore ...

New research indicates early humans and canines were interacting in the Americas 2,000 years earlier than previously thought ...

Solar flares and coronal mass ejections could cause serious damage to telecommunications systems, satellites and power grids ...

A conservation project sparks innovative research on the National Museum of American History’s Gunboat Philadelphia.

Mount Fuji’s last eruption, which happened on this day in 1707, was also its largest, spewing ash and debris over cities and ...

From the realization that paleontologists still haven’t found the biggest dinosaurs to the unearthing of a small burrowing ...

Because of his alleged involvement with the Ghost Dance movement, the Lakota leader, who died on this day in 1890, was seen ...

All Is by My Side speaks about making living history from legend Max Kutner The Smithsonian has acquired some of the only ...

So-called mirror cells could rampage through our ecosystems, food supply and immune systems, experts say, potentially without ...

To commemorate the National Day of the Horse, see herds of equine images from the Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest ...

The enfranchisement of property-owning women over 30 on this day in 1918 came at a time of great strife within political ...