This video uncovers the towering predator that once ruled ancient North America. Viewers learn how its size and speed created ...

Darrin Lowery found a collection of tools in Maryland that may date to 22,000 years ago. That would mean humans first arrived in North America thousands of years before we thought. Most experts ...

Scientists have unveiled the oldest woolly mammoth specimen ever discovered in North America as part of a major DNA study ...

A new dome-headed dinosaur speices found in Montana, Brontotholus harmoni, reveals unexpected clues about their evolution.

Members of New Mexico’s Picuris Pueblo Tribal Nation have long told stories about having descended from ancient North American ancestors. Genetic evidence now backs up what Picuris people — but not ...

Expanding perspectives on the archaeology of pipes, tobacco, and other smoke plants in the ancient Americas / Elizabeth A. Bollwerk and Shannon Tushingham -- Smoking pipes of eastern North America / ...

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

During the ceremony, Salish-Kootenai Tribe member Francis Auld said that while it was “unfortunate” that the boy’s remains were excavated and examined, he could “partially agree with the science if it ...

Arriving in the 15th century and beyond, European explorers came to North America hoping to discover another civilization like those of the Maya or Inca to plunder. Not finding mountains of gold or ...

These skeletons of two hunter-gatherer individuals excavated at the Checua archaeological site north of Bogotá, Colombia, helped uncover the genetic details of a mysterious population. Ana María Groot ...

An ancient lake that rarely appears, has reemerged once again in the driest place in North America — Death Valley National ...

A deep heat mass beneath the Appalachians appears to have started near a rift between Greenland and North America. Its slow southward journey reveals that ancient tectonic events still influence the ...