Joe Rosenthal’s iconic photos from Iwo Jima helped the United States raise $26 billion for the war and served as the basis ...

The scientific breakthrough, announced on this day in 1997, proved that geneticists could clone an adult mammal, giving rise ...

The juvenile gray seal recently weaned off his mother's milk and ventured five miles into the coastal Connecticut city ...

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Alaskans have been gathering in the tiny coastal town of Valdez to celebrate the art of climbing ice Alaska’s hardiest ...

These images from the Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest show what makes the City of Angels and its next-door neighborhoods ...

Once abundant throughout southeastern Australia, the critically endangered plains-wanderer is now on the brink of extinction ...

Archaeologists discovered an unusual bronze artifact studded with holes while excavating the ancient city of Hadrianopolis in ...

Fossils are providing more and more clues about how dinosaurs attracted one another and reproduced, which contributed to ...

Researchers present an alternative to the long-held “hard steps” theory to explain the evolution of complex life, suggesting ...

NASA announced that asteroid 2024 YR4 now has a 0.28 percent chance of hitting Earth in 2032, but that number is expected to ...

Spix’s disc-winged bats shrieked when they were first shown mealworms, a new food for them. Were they alarmed, or were they ...