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The Smithsonian Natural History Museum's latest exhibit, "From These Lands," connects visitors with America's natural history.

Analysis of 3,000 incidents in Canada reveals which animal-human activity combos are especially risky. Of note: Elk and campgrounds are a bad mix.

Fake, painted decoys suggest immature coloring acts as a social signal, reducing aggression from territorial nesting gulls.

A private rocket mission aims to boost NASA's Swift telescope before its orbit decays, extending its hunt for gamma-ray bursts.

Walking sharks crawl on their fins across reefs and even out into tide pools. The newfound Dudgeon walking shark brings the known species count to 10.

Euplotes gigatrox's shape-shifting may reveal how early life learned to act in surprisingly complex ways.

New experiments show that octopuses can understand where an item is based solely on its reflection.

The High-Luminosity LHC, planned to switch on in 2030, could help physicists unravel mysteries about the Higgs boson, dark matter and more.

New calculations suggest that the insect species inhabiting our planet may be double or triple previous estimates.

Renaissance painter Jan Brueghel the Elder painted a bat eating a bird -- 400 years before scientists would document the behavior.