In a rocky corner of southeastern China, a trail of fossilized footprints has revealed a predator so large it would have ...

Ancient Antarctic Sea Monster May Have Laid This Football-Size Egg. A 68 million-year-old egg the size of a football — the ...

Smarter nickel coatings could make alkaline electrolyzers and hydrogen fuel, cheaper, faster to produce, and more efficient.

Indicative of hope, the journal, Science, chose as its 2025 “science breakthrough of the year” the remarkable surge of ...

Scientists have reconstructed the head of an ancient human relative from 1.5 million year-old fossilized bones and teeth. But ...

A mystery that started with the discovery of a pinkie finger bone in Denisova Cave in the Altai Mountains of southern Siberia may finally have been cracked.

The manumea, a critically endangered ground pigeon and one of the closest living dodo relatives, has been spotted multiple ...

Over 70 new species, from insects to dinosaurs, were identified in 2025 by combining fieldwork, museum collections, and ...

In paleoanthropology, a rare, nearly-complete skeleton can rewrite entire chapters of the human origin story. The “Little ...

A new study published in Science shows that these plants—called cycads—use infrared radiation from heat as a signal to ...

With studies of fossilized bones, gut contents, eggshells and more, paleontologists revealed new and captivating details ...

From a small island off the coast of Panama to the farthest reaches of space, the Smithsonian advanced our knowledge of the ...