For years, scientists thought Antarctica was the main source of meltwater that flooded the planet's oceans after the last ice age. But new research has flipped that story, and it has major ...

The first people to enter the Americas may have sailed from Japan around 20,000 years ago, according to a new analysis of ...

ANTH copy has bookplate: Smithsonian Institution Libraries, Gift from the Margery Masinter Foundation Endowment for Illustrated Books. Contents Why waltes was a woman's game / Kevin Leonard -- Playing ...

Analysis of a massive wooden monument has uncovered new secrets of Cahokia, America’s greatest lost civilization.

Newly dated fossils from New Mexico challenge the idea that dinosaurs were in decline—and suggest instead they had formed ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. An exhibit on Prehistoric hunters and ...

While the great Tyrannosaurus rex stalked prehistoric North America, a very different apex predator prowled ancient Argentina: the newly discovered megaraptor Joaquinraptor casali. When ...

A croc bone locked between the 70-million-year-old predator’s jaws gives scientists a rare look into its life and possibly its last feast. A reconstruction of the newly discovered megaraptor ...