The Midcontinent Rift is a giant tear that formed in what is now the U.S. Midwest 1.1 billion years ago. Nicknamed North America's "broken heart," it is filled with solidified magma and lava.

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 ...

Scientifically speaking, this would mean North America and Europe could be classed as one, and not two continents. 'While it is controversial to suggest that the GIFR contains a large amount of ...

North America is the third largest continent in the world. It is located in the Northern Hemisphere. The north of the continent is within the Arctic Circle and the Tropic of Cancer passes through ...

North America and Europe should be classed as ONE continent, scientists claim in controversial new study. Experts say break-up of European and North American continents is ongoing ...

Hidden within North America is a long-forgotten continent once ruled by a bizarre cast of dinosaurs – but only a handful of fossils have ever been found. It was a typically warm, humid day in ...

There are 23 countries in North America. It is the third-largest in terms of area and fourth-most populous continent in the world. North America accounts for 7.5% of the world’s population.

North America is dripping—with sizable blobs of rock sinking from the underside of the continent, beneath the U.S. Midwest, into the Earth's mantle below.. This is the conclusion of researchers ...

In INDIGENOUS CONTINENT: The Epic Contest for North America (Liveright, 592 pp., $40), Pekka Hämäläinen asserts that the war for control of the continent was “one of the longest conflicts in ...

Fossils found recently in eastern North America provide evidence that similar dinosaurs lived on our continent. Elena Duvernay / Stocktrek Images Enormous, birdlike dinosaurs strutted across ...