The 98-foot-long vessel was transporting ceramic jugs, ceramic plates and metal bars when it sank off southeastern France nearly 500 years ago

Carl Hagenbeck believed that animals should be housed in habitats that mimicked their natural environment. Earlier, he'd followed the same guiding philosophy when exhibiting Indigenous people in "human zoos"

These images from the Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest remind us what makes the Lone Star State so special

Security footage shows the two museumgoers pretending to sit on the artwork as they pose for photos at the Palazzo Maffei in Italy. After the piece's front legs bucked, the pair left the museum

Fossils described in a new study speak to a previously unknown large-bodied lizard diversity that existed alongside dinosaurs

A new exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery traces three different 1800s forms of photo-making: daguerreotypes, ambrotypes and tintypes

The research offers new insights on interactions between creatures on the mysterious seafloor and sheds light on the methane cycle

This summer, the artist's historic home and studio are opening to the public alongside a massive retrospective exhibition at the museum that once refused his works

"Our Story With David Attenborough" at the Natural History Museum is a 50-minute program that explores humankind's role in the planet's ongoing story

The revolutionary Vera C. Rubin Observatory will unveil new insights about our universe—and you can catch a first look at a local event or online on Monday

Tracing the centuries of innovation that sent the golf ball on a wild ride through history

For the critically endangered red-shanked douc, proximity to an urban center has had surprising benefits

Minted in Peru in 1707, the money bolsters the evidence that the wreck is the Spanish ship "San José," which sank off the Colombian coast in 1708 with treasure worth billions on board

The CSS "Shenandoah" only learned of the Confederacy's defeat in the summer of 1865. That June, the cruiser's crew sank 24 American merchant vessels, unaware that the conflict had already ended

Dating back to the Neolithic era, the so-called Venus of Kolobrzeg is the first artifact of its kind unearthed in the European country

The artifact was remarkably preserved for a millennium in anaerobic clay on a private estate near the city of Montfoort

Bogong moths use both Earth's magnetic field and the starry night sky to make twice-yearly migrations spanning hundreds of miles, according to new research

The galaxy sits in a sweet spot that allows astronomers to study it in ways that can't be applied to even our own Milky Way

News of the discoveries comes amid the opening of the Williamsburg Bray School building, which educated hundreds of free and enslaved Black children between 1760 and 1774