Imagine a world very different from our own, where North ... designed maps like the one up top. This particular geopolitical scenario forms the basis of his latest series, “American Quilt.” ...

In the modern era, the European discovery of North American ... moving south to war and trade with the peoples of the Baghdad-based Abbasid Caliphate. Not long after the map’s “discovery ...

Millions of years ago, North American mammals flooded South America after the two continents joined. But South American mammals failed to return the favor, and now scientists have an idea why.

The continents of North and South America came together much earlier than previously thought, according to researchers who found evidence in rock deposits from ancient rivers in Colombia of the ...