Something strange is happening beneath the heart of North America. The continent’s ancient core, the craton, is changing ...

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

A new study indicates the giant reptile Deinosuchus is not a close relative of modern alligators, as scientists previously ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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.