A remarkably preserved horseshoe crab fossil from North America offers rare insight into some of the earliest known cases of ...

From 400-year-old globes to cosmic funeral shrouds, how the Osher Map Library in Maine shows people that maps aren't just for navigation — but windows into history, culture, and how we see the world.

Calakmul remained relatively undisturbed until gum harvesters in Mexico led an American botanist to them in 1931. Here’s what ...

The extinct rhinoceros, described in the journal Nature Ecology & Evolution, is the northernmost rhino known to have ever ...

For millions of years, the land we now call the United States has been home to towering prehistoric beasts, strange sea creatures, and lush ancient forests that no longer exist. Evidence of this ...

Located in southwestern Colorado, Mesa Verde National Park is home to some of the oldest human dwellings in North America.

Fresh research into the spectacular rock art of southwest Texas has revealed that ancient hunter-gatherers maintained a sophisticated belief system for more than four millennia, creating elaborate ...

New research in the Journal of Human Evolution suggests that the ancient ‘Lazarus’ primate was North America's last until ...

From creek beds to construction sites, North Texans keep stumbling onto dinosaur tracks, marine monsters and other fossils ...

What made this encounter truly extraordinary was Samoset's command of the English language. He had learned to speak English from fishermen who worked the waters off Monhegan Island in the Gulf of ...

Each year during November, Native American Heritage Month is celebrated. The month was created to honor the traditions, languages and history of those who came first. North Texas is home to many ...

Much of the turkey's early history is shrouded in uncertainty, historians and etymologists say — which is particularly true ...