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 ...

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 ...

Cheetahs, lions, elephants, camels and wild horses could be roaming North America again one day. That's the aim of a campaign to turn back the clock by ‘re-wilding’ the continent. Think ...

This collection of Funky Facts from Go Jetters focuses on North America, a continent found entirely within the northern hemisphere. In these clips, we explore iconic landmarks within the United ...

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 ...

A continent-sized scan of North America is giving researchers the sharpest view yet of mysterious geological structures underneath the United States. The impressive view comes from an ambitious ...

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 ...

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.

Long before the Great Lakes came to define the heart of North America, a much larger lake once ruled the land. Lake Agassiz, a prehistoric inland sea, spread across the continent with a reach that ...

North America is dripping blobs of rock into the Earth's ... But a paper published in the journal Nature Geoscience found that the underside of the North American continent is "dripping" as we speak.

Seismic mapping of North America has revealed that an ancient slab of crust buried beneath the Midwest is causing the crust above it to "drip" and suck down rocks from across the continent.

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 ...