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 ...

Last night at 2:17 AM, every child from Mrs. Gandy's class went missing.

Well before the Europeans arrived, the indigenous people of North America raised cities that rivaled those an ocean away.

Researchers say they have confirmed the age of a set of ancient human footprints in New Mexico, finding them to be between around 23,000 and 21,000 years old. The latest results, published in the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 / ...

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 ...