What’s behind the raucous pre-Lenten rite? An intrepid scholar hits the streets of Trinidad to find out
Excavations at a cemetery in a Thai village reveal a 4,000-year-old indigenous culture
What do Charles Darwin, Abraham Lincoln, and the Freedom Riders have in common with each other?
The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
Great Emancipator or unreconstructed racist? Each generation evokes a different Lincoln. But who was our sixteenth president?
Momentous or Merely Memorable
Fighting racial segregation in the South, these activists were beaten and arrested. Where are they now, nearly fifty years later?
Born on the same day, Lincoln and Darwin would forever influence how people think about the modern world
After years as an endangered species, the wolves are thriving again in the West, but they're also reigniting a fierce controversy
Braving storms with high seas a group of elite ship pilots steers tankers and freighters through the Columbia River
Today's scientists marvel that the 19th-century naturalist's grand vision of evolution is still the key to life
Honeyeater birds, sea slugs, tree frogs, and more
Can cuteness save the Emperor penguin?
About 5 percent of the nation's chicken wings are eaten on that day - the product of a staggering 300 million chickens
Smithsonian's Laura Helmuth vacationed in the Galapagos Islands and returned with even more respect for Charles Darwin
Jake Page explores the evolution and enigmatic ways of the most popular pet in America -- the house cat
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