The Haenyeo, a group of skilled divers on Jeju Island, plunge beneath the ocean’s surface without any breathing equipment, ...

A new study highlights the potential of amber fossils to capture evidence of powerful, prehistoric ocean waves ...

More than a millennium ago, a Maya community collapsed in the face of a devastating drought. One writer joined an intrepid ...

Working with local Indigenous people, biologist František Vejmělka spent six months surveying the creatures that live on ...

Researcher Vladimir Dinets watched the bird repeatedly sneak behind a row of cars to ambush its unsuspecting prey ...

These seafaring shots are harbored in the archives of the Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest You don’t have to love water or ...

The tiny Carnarvon flapjack octopus is the latest of ten species described by Australian scientists after a 2022 research ...

Over thousands of years, humans from Eurasia trekked more than 12,400 miles to eventually reach the southernmost tip of South ...

The adaptation appears to help the fish cope with high temperatures, since individuals and breeding pairs that shrank ...

The Archive Center at the National Museum of the American Indian presents a new exhibition that can help "interrupt the ...

The Scopes “monkey trial” garnered international attention, and the battle that was fought continues in some form in other ...

The first-ever direct flights from the United States to Greenland will give tourists easier access to the island’s history, ...