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Because of their height, giraffes require scarily high blood pressures—yet they escape the massive health problems that plague humans with h...

Local songbirds, including chickadees, bluebirds and cardinals, will take advantage of their abundance and Smithsonian scientists are eager...

The creation, called a cardioid, will help with the study of heart disease and the discovery of new medications

The mummified Güldenstaedt's White-toothed shrew adds to scientists’ understanding of climate in the region more than 2000 years ago

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On view at the Smithsonian's Natural History Museum, this specimen of the extinct species unlocks an evolutionary mystery

These delicacies, harvested in an experiment in North Carolina, have food-lovers and farmers ravenous for more

Researchers are investigating how some species live unexpectedly long lives in order to pinpoint factors affecting human longevity.

A study in North Carolina of dying trees may represent a foreboding preview of what may come to coastal ecosystems worldwide

The elusive Bornean Rajah scops owl is inspiring scientists and researchers after its brief rediscovery

A handful of companies are trying vastly different approaches to spin animal studies into the next big anti-aging therapy

A group of scientists say the phenomenon could indicate dark matter speeding through our world at more than 300 miles a second

The National Museum of Natural History’s herbarium is helping botanists research climate-driven changes in plants, their biology and their a...

Psychologist Susan Turk Charles talks about findings that reveal the elderly have higher emotional well-being

They lacked the gargantuan size and spikes of the species museums often celebrate, but these species are how paleontologists learn about the...

A short list of the amazing changes and behaviors that transform both humans and animals on the journey of motherhood

Bonnethead sharks swam in the direction of their home waters when placed in a tank charged with an electromagnetic field

The unearthing of a tiny child suggests Africa’s Stone Age humans sometimes practiced funerary rites and had symbolic thoughts about death

What will animals think of the impending bug buffet?

Paleobiologists use fossil plants to reconstruct Earth’s past climate and inform climate change research today.

As the U.S. anticipates a vaccinated summer, historians say measuring the impact of the 1918 influenza on the uproarious decade that followe...

Stream online multi-part courses, studio arts classes and virtual study tours in these offerings from the Smithsonian Associates

When the rodents are moved from backyards to wild areas, they make their new watersheds better for fish

These May releases elevate overlooked stories and offer insights on oft-discussed topics

Each spring across the forests, lakes and suburbs of North America, millions of birds take a long journey north in search of summer nesting...