In addition to the 1,800-year-old piece of engraved jewelry, archaeologists discovered a trove of Carolingian coins, medieval ...
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Goats, rodents and habitat loss threatened the snails on Deserta Grande Island, so the mollusks were reintroduced on a ...
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Get into the winter spirit with these images from the Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest ...
The young female made her public debut this week, and the Metro Richmond Zoo is asking fans to vote on her name—a choice between Poppy and Hammie Mae ...
The bird, thought to be the only one of its kind in the Western Hemisphere, is presumed to be Stella, an out-of-place raptor spotted at sites across North America in recent years ...
The third president knew that the whims of nature shaped Americans’ daily lives as farmers and enslavers Sara Georgini Historian, Massachusetts Historical Society Between July 1776 and June 1826, ...