For years, scientists thought Antarctica was the main source of meltwater that flooded the planet's oceans after the last ice age. But new research has flipped that story, and it has major ...

Approximately nine centuries ago, Indigenous Americans demonstrated remarkable engineering and logistical capabilities by transporting a colossal 5-ton tree over a distance of more than 100 miles.

Tucked away in the northwest corner of Kansas is a place where time stands still, a thriving ode to small-town America.

Until now, researchers had only uncovered a few tantalizing hints that humans had reached the American continent by this time ...

Researchers reveal that a 66-million-year-old “dinosaur mummy” wasn’t preserved skin but a thin clay film that perfectly ...

Imagine a sloth. You probably picture a medium-sized, tree-dwelling creature hanging from a branch. Today's sloths—commonly ...

I first became interested in the Pueblo peoples of the U.S. Southwest in the late 1980s, during a visit to Santa Fe, New ...

It's the American way to be dramatic, but things got out of hand between Trent Reznor and Limp Bizkit when they started writing diss tracks about each other.

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