A new study, published today in the journal Science, reveals how millennia of human migration across Pacific islands led to ...

A rare marsupial, the Wondiwoi tree kangaroo, has been found alive in New Guinea. This species was last seen nearly 90 years ...

Metro Checks In to The Artist – Grand Hotel of Art, a 5-star hotel in Bilbao, Spain. Anyone who has watched A Night at the ...

Scientists researching primates, called "primatologists," have learned a lot over the years about our closest evolutionary ...

Mushrooms can be a divisive food for some people, but our distant primate relatives would have a different opinion on the matter. Non-human primates are known for their love of fruit, leaves, and ...

IF YOU'VE ever watched your cat stare intensely out the window at a bird, making that peculiar "ek-ek-ek" chattering sound ...

We rely on smell more than most people may realize. Across mammals, scent guides feeding, warns of danger, and shapes social ...

Among many fascinating finds from Mohenjo-Daro and Harappa, the diminutive monkey figurine is undoubtedly the most captivating object on display at the Indus Gallery, in the National Museum of ...

From Stanley Tucci’s imperious tech titan to Lex Luthor’s distractingly hot CEO and Elon Musk-esque blowhards, films this year took us inside the billionaire mindset ...

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

Giant Amazon tree Drypetes oliveri, towering 115 feet, was discovered after 40 years, with only a few surviving in Peru.

The secret to its rapid transit is in its chemistry. Ethanol, to give booze its proper name, is a tiny, agile molecule. It has a backbone of two carbon atoms and is soluble in water. It can hop over ...