Discover the wide range of fish and freshwater creatures that call the Tennessee River and its surrounding valley home.

Deep in the waters along the Atlantic Coast swims a fish that looks like it’s smiling—because it almost is. Known as the ...

Almost 2 million years ago, a young ancient human died beside a spring near a lake in what is now Tanzania, in eastern Africa ...

Traditionally, paleoanthropologists believed that Homo habilis, as the earliest big-brained humans, was responsible for the earliest sites with tools. The idea has been that Homo habilis was the ...

As one of the world’s most diverse vertebrates, fish can come in a variety of shapes, colors, and sizes. With over 33,000 ...