Deep inside Ecuador’s Amazon basin, a film crew and a team of biologists set out to capture a television moment and instead ...

Earth, our dynamic and life-sustaining planet, is approximately 4.543 billion years old. Over these vast eons, it has undergone dramatic transformations—from fiery origins and shifting continents to ...

Carlos Jaramillo (top row, third from the right), a staff scientist at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, co-organized the team that discovered the largest snake in world history. Courtesy ...