Throughout history, great civilisations have risen, flourished and then disappeared, leaving behind ruins, legends and a host ...

The mound builders' diet largely consisted of fish, including catfish, freshwater drum, and sunfish, which made up about 80% of their meat intake. They also hunted deer, small mammals, turtles ...

Carbon dating of the charcoal showed that the ridges were rebuilt over a 600-year span, beginning around A.D. 1000 during what is known as the Late Woodland period in North America.

A laser eye-in-the-sky has uncovered vast, ancient farm fields in an unlikely place — the frosty forests of Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. Ancestors of present-day Menominee people, a federally ...

NEW YORK — Scientists have identified a new pod of ancient hunter-gatherers who lived near the land bridge between North America and South America about 6,000 years ago. Researchers are still ...

In Parking Enforcement #249, the team responds to an impound order involving a gray Volkswagen left suspiciously near a commercial building. With limited information from dispatch and no one ...

Scientists have identified a new pod of ancient hunter-gatherers who lived near the land bridge between North America and South America about 6,000 years ago.

But in Cretaceous North America, at least, Deinosuchus really stands out. The enormous top predator is known for its massive appetite, which included just about anything, even dinosaurs.

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 ...

He reported that fossils of mammoths and mastodons, which roamed North America until 10,000 years ago, were found near the Big Bone Lick in Union, Kentucky. The warm salt springs had been an ...

Over decades, geologists had built up a history of eastern North America by mapping rocks on Earth’s surface. But they got a much better look, and many fresh insights, starting around 2010.

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.