For more than 100,000 years, coastal communities have harvested abalone (genus Haliotis). These gastropods, which are found ...

Melissa Betters is a Peter Buck postdoctoral fellow at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. Her research focuses on the discovery, evolution and biogeography of deep-sea gastropod ...

An exhibit on human origins at the Smithsonian vastly overstates the genetic similarity between humans and apes and needs to be fixed according to Discovery Institute.

Shark attacks on humans are rare. Despite how movies and the media depict them, sharks are not hunters of people. Your ...

“You share 50 percent of your DNA with each of your parents. But with bananas, we share about 50 percent of our genes,” Mike ...

In today’s episode of “Matt About Town,” we’re unmasking the identity of “Capitalsaurus,” diving deep into the story behind ...

To survive the deep ocean, sea creatures need all kinds of adaptations that give them alien-like appearances, like huge eyes ...

Great Smoky Mountains National Park fuels scientific discovery with the park’s unique geology, topography and meteorology.

At roughly 22 feet long and tipping the scales near 11,000 pounds, Lokiceratops is the heavyweight champion of North American ...

Upon discovering the lower jawline, it was the distinctive shape of the molars that alerted Kirkland that he and Gregory had ...

Explore the National Arboretum after hours, party in the street at Sundress Fest, celebrate Argentine culture and enjoy the ...

Ancient Greece, the cradle of Western civilization, was responsible for creating five of the seven wonders of the ancient ...