DNA supports modern Picuris Pueblo accounts of ancestry going back more than 1,000 years to Chaco Canyon society.

Imagine walking through an ancient city built not from stone, but from earth, its massive mounds and ridges silently rising ...

Imagine a world where monstrous beasts, with jaws large enough to crush bones and attitudes as fierce as their appearance, ...

At the ceremony, he said he expected some criticism from the scientific community regarding the reburial, as more could one day be learned from the ancient boy’s remains. Montana State University’s ...

When Maureen Long talks to the public about her work, she likes to ask her audience to close their eyes and think of a ...

If there were any contender for a real-life equivalent to the Oliphaunts of J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle Earth, it would be ...

In the Triassic era, North America was part of Pangea, a supercontinent whose massive scale sparked extreme monsoons that ...

A study published in the journal Nature Geoscience has revealed a subtle yet significant phenomenon beneath the North American continent; its ancient bedrock is slowly dripping into the Earth’s ...

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 ...

Scientists have discovered that a tooth found near Old Crow, Yukon, in 2018 belonged to the oldest known woolly mammoth in North America ... track the movements of ancient mammoths from hundreds ...