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

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

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

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 ...

Most of the documents are heading to the auction block, where they could fetch more than $1 million. They were found in a ...

Conservationists hope the love story between Boris and Svetlaya might indicate a new, successful chapter in tiger ...

With teams competing in outlandish physical challenges, the Zogo dell’Oca of Mirano showcases Italy’s flair for invented ...

A fragment of upper jaw fossil from the Early Cretaceous is among the oldest examples of a toothless amphibian in the fossil ...

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

Francis Drake's successful voyage included British sailors' arrival in California and the plundering of a glut of Spanish ...

Named "Ninumbeehan dookoodukah" by Eastern Shoshone students and elders, the creature burrowed in riverbeds to stay moist ...