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How a Relentless, 484-Mile March From Virginia to Massachusetts Fueled the Legend of the Dashing Frontier Rifleman

Meet the First Barbie With Type 1 Diabetes. Her Colorful Accessories Showcase the Tools People Use to Treat the Chronic Disease

Preserved Blood Vessels Discovered in a Rib Bone from the World's Largest T. Rex Could Shed Light on How Dinosaurs Healed

Does This Ancient Rock Carving Depict One of Egypt's Earliest Rulers?

A Rare Renaissance Fresco That Could Be One of Fra Angelico's Earliest Works Has Been Restored to Its Former Glory

To Combat Summer Reading Slumps, This Timeless Children’s Television Show Tried to Bridge the Literacy Gap With the Magic of Stories

Enemy Ant Colonies Are Peaceful Roommates in Apartment-Like Plants on Fiji. Scientists Discovered How This Delicate Coexistence Works

Have Eagle-Eyed Experts Found This 316-Year-Old Stradivarius Violin That Was Looted During World War II?

An Arizona Resident Died From the Plague. Here's What to Know About the Rare Disease

Historic Grand Canyon Lodge Destroyed by Wildfire as Blaze Continues Across National Park's North Rim

A California Gull Hitched a Ride on a Garbage Truck and Took an 80-Mile Journey to a Compost Facility. Then It Happened Again

Check Out Ten Spectacular Space Images From the Astronomy Photographer of the Year Contest

The Largest Section of the Beloved Sycamore Gap Tree Is Going on Display in England

Greenland Sled Dog DNA Reveals a Story of Human Migration and Ancestry of the Unique Breed

Why Did a Large Harpy Eagle Attack an Adult Woman?

A Paleontologist Matched Two Halves of the Same Fossil Stored at Different Museums—and Discovered a New Species

Archaeologists Unearth Treasure-Filled Tomb Belonging to the First Known Ruler of a Maya City in Belize

Neanderthals May Have Been Running a Sophisticated 'Fat Factory' in Germany 125,000 Years Ago

These 'Weird' Sea Spiders Don't Have Abdomens—and Instead Store Organs in Their Legs. With DNA, Scientists Are Learning Why

How the Etch A Sketch Etched Itself Into Pop Culture

Stolen Historic Documents Surface in Attic—Ten Years After an Employee Used Them as Collateral to Borrow Money

Giant Sloths and Many Other Massive Creatures Were Once Common on Our Planet. With Environmental Changes, Such Giants Could Thrive Again

See Greece in All Its Gorgeous Glory

The Louvre Is Asking Architects to Submit Their Design Ideas for an Ambitious $316 Million Expansion

'Nothing Short of Magical': Scientists Discover a Dinosaur Bone Nearly 800 Feet Beneath a Parking Lot at a Denver Museum

Seven Mysteries You Can Explore in America's National Parks

Mysterious 'Red Sprite' Appears in NASA Astronaut Photo From the Space Station. What Is This Strange Electrical Flare?

Lost Bow of American Warship Found Eight Decades After It Was Blown Off by a Japanese Torpedo in World War II

See Ten Stunning Images From the International Aerial Photographer of the Year Awards

How Superman Became a Character for the Ages

Archaeologists Unveil a 3,500-Year-Old City in Peru That Sheds Light on the Caral Culture

How Underwater Archaeology Brings Secrets to the Surface, From Lost Shipwrecks to Submerged Cities

Something Strange Is Happening to Tomatoes Growing on the Galápagos Islands

The 230-Foot-Long Bayeux Tapestry Is Returning Home to England for the First Time in Nearly 1,000 Years

A Massive Underwater Fossil Find Includes Remains From Ancient Human Ancestors

Melting Glaciers Will Lead to More Volcanic Eruptions, Study Suggests. Now, All Eyes Are On Antarctica

The Architect Who Designed the Iconic Entrances to the Paris Métro Is Finally Getting the Attention He Deserves

Archaeologists Unearth Traces of an Iron Age Settlement and Roman Villa in England

Why Are So Many More Women Being Diagnosed With ADHD?

The Getty Villa Reopens Six Months After the Devastating Palisades Fire

A Rare, Pregnant Ichthyosaur Fossil Discovered in Chile Is Revealing More Secrets About the Early Cretaceous World

This Museum Is Asking Visitors Whether It Should Continue to Display Mummified Human Remains

The Largest Martian Meteorite in the World Is Heading to Auction and Could Sell for $4 Million

U.S. Measles Cases Reach a Record High Since the Disease Was Declared Eliminated 25 Years Ago

How Women in New Jersey Gained—and Lost—the Right to Vote More Than a Century Before the 19th Amendment Granted Suffrage Nationwide

Jane Austen Never Loved Bath—but Bath Loves Jane Austen. Now, the City Is Exploring Why the Novelist Was So Unhappy There

How an Ancestral Peruvian Ceremony Is Saving the Once-Endangered Vicuña

The Vatican's Newly Restored Raphael Rooms Spotlight the Great Artist Who Died Before Finishing His Final Project

Bear-Sized Giant Beavers Once Roamed North America, and They're Now the Official State Fossil of Minnesota

Scientists Have Sequenced an Ancient Egyptian Skeleton's Entire Genome for the Very First Time. Here's What They Found