Across North America, archaeologists are pulling remarkable stories out of the ground, from Ice Age footprints to buried ...

A controversial new study suggests our geography textbooks should be rewritten. Since we were young, we’ve learned that Africa, Antarctica, Asia, Oceania, Europe, North America and South America make ...

There are seven continents on Earth, or so we learned in school. But it turns out that these designations are not as straightforward as they seem, and different scientists have different views on how ...

However, they didn't have a population boom until about 14,700 years ago. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Now, two new studies ...

Scientist Kirk Johnson, who grew up in the Seattle area, is the host of Nova’s “Making North America,” a three-part series that debuts Nov. 4 on PBS stations nationwide. Credit: PBS. There is no such ...

Indigenous Continent: The Epic Contest for North America, by Pekka Hämäläinen. Liveright. 576 pages. $40. In the 1630s, the powerful Pequot Confederacy of southern New England found itself beset by ...

Scientists have compiled the most comprehensive map yet of tectonic stress magnitudes across North America, highlighting regions most vulnerable to earthquakes. The map and associated study, published ...

An ancient slab of Earth's crust buried deep beneath the Midwest is sucking huge swatches of present-day's North American crust down into the mantle, researchers say. The slab's pull has created giant ...

Ancient horses roamed the North American continent for millions of years. And many, many years later, horses played an integral role in building the foundation of the United States. However, there was ...

Giant camels used to roam what’s now Los Angeles. If you visit the city’s La Brea asphalt seeps, you can see their bones, reconstructed into a massive skeleton gleaming beneath the museum lights.