Before going extinct roughly two million years ago, canids known as borophagines took down and consumed much larger prey ...

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.

The consensus is that the First Americans (FAM) emerged in Asia around 25,000 years ago, mixed with Ancient North Eurasians —probably somewhere in southern Siberia—and then expanded into the ...

Around 75 million years ago, North America’s largest and most formidable carnivore was not a dinosaur—but a croc. Deinosuchus, the “ terrible crocodile ” in Greek, could reach more than 35 ...

Beneath the quiet plains and bustling cities of the U.S. and Canada, an ancient process is slowly playing out. According to a new study published in Nature Geoscience, pieces of North America's ...

These 5 ancient cities once ruled North America—what happened to them? Teotihuacan, Cahokia, and other metropolises featured striking religious centers, multifamily dwellings, and burial mounds ...

The lineage emerged in North America millions of years after the apparent extinction of all other known primates on the continent, making the taxon a “Lazarus” species—one that crops up ...

A prehistoric sea monster never-before-known to man was hunting prey in North America 85 million years ago, fossils found decades ago in Canada reveal. The first set of fossils, found in 1988 ...

However, to date, the only skeletal remains confirmed to have belonged to the ancient culture are those of an 18-month-old boy who was buried near Wilsall, Montana, around 12,800 years ago.

A reconstruction of prehistoric temperatures for some of the oldest archaeological sites in North America Date: March 30, 2023 Source: Desert Research Institute Summary: Scientists often look to ...

The use of various organic resins as mastics and sealants in prehistoric North America is well documented in the archaeological and ethnographic literature. While the utilization of the creosote lac ...