The artifact is now on display at a museum in southern England. Experts say the find is “so rare that most qualified archaeologists would never find one themselves” Sonja Anderson Daily ...

The Smithsonian also welcomed new pandas to the National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute, hosted its annual Folklife Festival and helped celebrate 25 years of the Chandra X-Ray Observatory.

The story begins in the 1970s when researchers unearthed a collection of 21 fossil fragments representing 16 different individuals at the Xujiayao site. But it wasn’t until recent comprehensive ...