Artworks by the Latvian-American Abstract Expressionist have been damaged before, but repairs have added up to hundreds of ...

The popular salamanders are nearly extinct in the wild, where they are confined to a small system of canals in Mexico City.

After Paloma’s mother, the French painter Françoise Gilot, split with Picasso in the 1950s, she wrote a memoir about the ...

Conservationists recently introduced 15 of the polka-dotted marsupials into a protected area of New South Wales ...

Analysis of the fossil suggests that the only two egg-laying mammals, platypuses and land-based echidnas, both descended from ...

Even compared to chimpanzees, one of our closest relatives, humans' scrapes and cuts tend to stick around for more than twice ...

Created by artist Jennie C. Jones, the new exhibition features a trio of towering musical instruments made from concrete and aluminum ...

DNA reveals that the people of Carthage, a powerful independent colony founded by the Phoenicians, had little genetic ...

Across his video and painting work, he deploys subtle and sophisticated shifts in tone, texture and surface, showing how the ...

As wildfire becomes an increasingly lethal force that’s remaking broad swaths of California, people and animals alike are in ...

Archaeologists were preparing for the construction of a new housing development when they found more than 100 equine skeletons dating to the second century C.E.

The Smithsonian returns with its 5th annual National Education Summit, a free three-day conference for educators preparing to ...