Primate fossils dating back 30 million years reveal the emergence of a North American mammal lineage that originated in Asia. Reading time 3 minutes You may think Nebraska and China have little in ...
Ancient Native American populations may have "back-migrated" into northeastern Asia, findings from a study published in the journal Current Biology indicate. The paper sheds light on the history of ...
Dozens of awe-inspiring ancient footprints left on the shores of an ice age lake have reignited a long-running debate about when the first people arrived in the Americas. Two years ago, a team of ...
Something strange is happening beneath the heart of North America. The continent’s ancient core, the craton, is changing quietly but profoundly. Geologists at last caught evidence of the process ...
An ancient slab of Earth's crust buried deep beneath the Midwest is sucking huge swatches of present-day's North American crust down into the mantle, researchers say. The slab's pull has created giant ...
Some 50 million years ago, a flightless tropical bird, related to the ostrich, roamed the forests of North America. Researchers discovered a spectacularly well-preserved fossil of the ancient species, ...
The movement of people across the Bering Sea from North Asia to North America is a well-known phenomenon in early human history. Nevertheless, the genetic makeup of the people who lived in North Asia ...
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 mantle ...
Dinosaur Discovery on MSN
The evolution of North America’s prehistoric giants
This documentary walks through the entire prehistoric timeline of North America, showcasing ancient seas, early reptiles, massive dinosaurs, and the ice age giants that followed. Each era brings new ...
An ancient slab of Earth's crust buried deep beneath the Midwest is sucking huge swatches of present-day's North American crust down into the mantle, researchers say. The slab's pull has created giant ...
An artist's impression of the Late Cretaceous crocodilian Deinosuchus riograndensis and a much smaller, early alligator relative. Márton Szabó More than 75 million ...
Scientists have painstakingly constructed the world's biggest butterfly tree of life and discovered that the first butterflies evolved 100 million years ago in what is now Central and North America, ...
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