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Smithsonian to display rare and ‘remarkable’ dinosaur skull that was unearthed in South Dakota - The Pachycephalosaurus skull ...
Earth researchers have spent generations decoding the Grand Canyon, turning its cliffs and chasms into one of the clearest records of our planet’s deep past. These nine Grand Canyon facts, grounded in ...
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The Ten Best Science Books of 2025

From “experimental archaeology” to the mysterious appeal of exploration, the wide-ranging subjects detailed in these titles captivated Smithsonian magazine’s science contributors this year ...
Narrated by Tom Hiddleston and executive produced by Hollywood film-maker Jon Favreau alongside creative director of the BBC’s Natural History Unit and long-term David Attenborough collaborator Mike ...
The show is full of amazing animals from swimming cows to a soccer-playing turtle named Mbappé, but the most surprising stars of the episode are much smaller and have a lot more legs. Adam and Demi ...
Welcome to Makoshika State Park in Glendive, Montana – the state’s largest state park that somehow remains its best-kept secret. The word “Makoshika” (pronounced muh-KO-shi-kuh) comes from Lakota, ...
A new study has revealed South America’s wetlands have been home to 5.2m-long anacondas for more than 12 million ...
Ten years ago, the U.S. was on track to phase out coal by 2030, thanks to the Sierra Club. Now Trump and AI are delaying the fuel’s decline.
The former state pathologist and now best-selling author, Dr Marie Cassidy, on the words that fill her world.
Researchers at the newly discovered site reported finding more than one hundred vertebrate fossils per square meter, making ...