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A New App Can Match Footprints to the Dinosaurs That Made Them

Megalodons Went Extinct Millions of Years Ago. The Prehistoric Predator Could Become Maryland's Official State Shark

This Rare Roman Figurine of a Cat With Its Paws Atop a Severed Head Is One of Britain's Newest Treasures

Here Are 250 Places to Visit to Celebrate America's 250th Birthday. How Many Have You Been To?

Artificial Lungs Kept a Dying Man Alive For 48 Hours—Until He Was Well Enough to Receive an Organ Transplant

A Fossil Trove in China Provides a Rare Window Into a Mass Extinction Event That Happened More Than 500 Million Years Ago

What Are the Best TV Shows About the American Revolution? A Historian Outlines Five of His Favorites

Small, Stubby-Armed Dinosaurs Have Confounded Paleontologists. Are Answers Finally Within Reach?

'Rising Star' of a Prominent Yellowstone Wolf Pack Was Illegally Killed, Sparking a Poaching Investigation

From 'The Karate Kid' to 'Clueless,' These Are the 25 New Additions to the National Film Registry. See the Full List Here

When Vampire Bats Become Close Friends, They Start ‘Talking’ Like Each Other

Researchers Say This Paleolithic Teenage Boy Died a Slow Death After a Bear Mauled Him

Wild Jaguars Sometimes Meow Just Like House Cats, New Recordings Suggest. The Sounds May Help Mothers and Cubs Find One Another

Google Researchers Say Their New A.I. Tool AlphaGenome Can Help Decode the Human Genetic Instruction Book

Ten of the Most Exciting Ways to Commemorate America's 250th This Year

Renaissance Readers Left Chemical Clues Inside These Medical Manuals. Were They Using Human Feces and Tortoise Shells to Treat Illnesses?

Dinosaur National Monument Construction Work Turns Up New Fossils, Leading to the First Excavation at One Site in More Than a Century

These 15 Delightful Photos of Denmark Will Have You Booking Your Flights to Scandinavia This Weekend

The Earliest Known Vertebrates Had Four Eyes—and They Worked a Lot Like Ours Do, New Research Suggests

Dozens of Items That Once Belonged to Nelson Mandela Can Head to Auction, South African Court Rules

Beach Erosion Reveals Fragments of a 136-Year-Old Shipwreck That Sank in New Jersey's 'Graveyard of the Atlantic'

This Groundbreaking New Showcase of Nearly 60 Works Is the Biggest-Ever Exhibition of LGBTQ+ African Art

After a Heart Attack, the Brain's Response Might Make Recovery Harder. Cutting Some Communication Between the Organs Could Help

See How This Fashion Designer Reimagined the Jewels Stolen From the Louvre for Paris Haute Couture Week

Rare Mountain Lion Standoff in San Francisco Ends Peacefully After a 30-Hour Search

A Stunning Escape From Slavery Told on Tattered Pages

Cannibalism Among Snakes Is Far More Widespread Than Previously Thought

How Do Menopause and a Treatment to Manage Its Symptoms Affect the Brain and Mental Health?

You Can Buy This 438-Year-Old Mill in Wales That Inspired a Stunning J.M.W. Turner Painting

The Mystery of the Missing Robert Burns Painting Has Finally Been Solved—After 200 Years of Searches and Seances

See the Most Detailed Map of Dark Matter Ever Made, Bringing Astronomers a Step Closer to Unraveling Its Mysterious Nature

Archaeologists Say This 9,500-Year-Old Burial Is the Oldest Known Evidence of Intentional Cremation Discovered in Africa

Mummified Cheetahs Discovered in Caves Could Help Saudi Arabia Bring the Wild Cat Back to Its Historical Range

These Hungry Starfish Are Spiraling Out of Control in Australia. Now Scientists Say They Have a New Plan to Fight Back

This Magnificent Mural by Leonardo da Vinci Will Go on Display for a Brief Window During the Winter Olympics in Milan

Archaeologists Unearthed a 430,000-Year-Old Stick. After Careful Analysis, They Say It Could Be the Oldest Wooden Tool Ever Discovered

Three Billion Years Ago, Mars May Have Been Half Covered by a Sea the Size of the Arctic Ocean

Researchers Discover a New Phase of Ice by Squeezing Water Between Diamonds

Anthropologists Recover DNA of Syphilis-Causing Bacterium Relative From 5,500-Year-Old Human Remains, the Earliest Ever Found

The American Southwest's Iconic Joshua Trees Are Blooming Early—and Scientists Want Your Help to Figure Out Why

What Happened to This 1,000-Pound Butter Sculpture After the Crowds Melted Away?

Archaeologists Discovered the 'Holy Grail' of Shipwrecks a Decade Ago. Now, They're Finally Beginning to Unravel the Secrets of the 'San José'

See How Alex Honnold Climbed a Dizzying 1,667-Foot-Tall Skyscraper Without Ropes

This Hammer Created From an Elephant Bone 480,000 Years Ago May Be the Oldest Known Tool of Its Kind Ever Found in Europe

Sonic Booms and Earthquake Sensors Can Help Researchers Track Space Junk as It Plummets to Earth

Tyrannosaurus Rex Was Probably a Late Bloomer—and May Have Taken Around 40 Years to Grow Up

Giant Kangaroos That Lived During the Ice Age May Have Hopped—Despite Weighing Up to 550 Pounds

Why Do These Tudor-Era Portraits of Anne Boleyn and Elizabeth I Look So Strikingly Similar?

A Little Boy’s Library Book Was Due in 1989. Thirty-Six Years Later, He Realized His Parents Had Never Returned It