Snakes bite five million people each year, killing some 125,000 and disfiguring or blinding three times as many. Antivenoms ...

Currently, one of those now-defunct spacecraft might be plummeting toward the planet’s surface. Days ago, the U.S. Space ...

Researchers suggest that predation by a subspecies called Bigg's orcas might explain why members of another one, called resident orcas, stay in such large family groups ...

A public transit official working for the city of Leeds found the coin while counting bus and tram fares. Now, his grandson has donated it to Leeds Museums and Galleries ...

"Pokémon Fossil Museum" in Chicago compares "fossil Pokémon" from the popular franchise to the real-world creatures they're based on ...

The USS "Monitor" was the U.S. Navy's first ironclad warship. The vessel, which sank off of North Carolina in 1862, revolutionized naval warfare ...

Smithsonian magazine covers history, science and culture in the way only it can — through a lens on the world that is insightful and grounded in richly reported stories. In There’s More to That, meet ...

The bottle recovered from a shipwreck off the coast of Poland National Maritime Museum in Gadansk Earlier this summer, researchers discovered a 200-year-old bottle of liquid while excavating a ...

After scientists accidentally discovered that the common eastern bumblebee can withstand flood conditions, they wanted to investigate what makes that super-ability possible ...

Over the past few years, art historians have identified several previously unknown paintings by Elizabeth I's favorite artist ...

Scientists have identified a strange early crocodile relative that may have looked somewhat like a flightless bird ...

The patriots weaponized Jane McCrea's death to demonize their enemies and paint Indigenous people as uniquely violent ...