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.

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

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

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

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 ...

To study this history, population geneticist Harald Ringbauer at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in ...

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 ...