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Unraveling the Secrets of the Inca Empire
For hundreds of years, Andean people recorded information by tying knots into long cords. Will we ever be able to read them?
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America's Oldest Rocks Detected In Surprising Michigan Location Draws Mixed Reactions
We can add another Michigan discovery to the list related to the oldest rock in America! That's right, this particular rock ...
T. rex’s Ancestors Used an Ancient Landbridge To Walk From Asia to North America
T. rex evolved in North America from Asian ancestors. Climate shifts and extinction events helped tyrannosaurids and ...
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North America was ruled by large mammals 50,000 years ago, now we know why they vanished
Molecular clues from collagen in old bones are teaching us about the lives, movements, and demise of Ice Age megafauna like ...
New study redraws the world map: Earth only has six continents
Earth may not have seven continents after all. From the earliest of grades, schoolchildren around the world have memorized ...
What America’s first board game can teach us about the aspirations of a young nation
Produced by the New York cartography firm of F. & R. Lockwood, “The Travellers’ Tour Through the United States” was an ...
14 of the most significant archaeological sites in the US
The US' history goes back thousands of years, thanks to a wealth of archaeological sites that give insight into the first ...
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Scientists Use DNA to Trace Early Humans’ Footsteps From Asia to South America
Over thousands of years, humans from Eurasia trekked more than 12,400 miles to eventually reach the southernmost tip of South ...
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Billion Years Ago, a Rift Nearly Split North America in Two and It Left Behind a Mysterious Scar
The horseshoe-shaped Midcontinent Rift is a 2,000-kilometer scar that is also called North America's 'broken heart' by ...
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Ancient Escarpment Drives Modern Conservation Success
LUCY HODKIEWICZ, Land Trust communications coordinator The Niagara Escarpment is an epic, ancient geological formation that ...
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North African ancestry was already present in the Iberian Peninsula in the 4th century, long before the Islamic conquest of 711
A joint study by researchers from the University of Huddersfield (United Kingdom), the Smurfit Institute of Genetics at the ...
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The Billion-Year-Old Crack That Shaped Lake Superior
Long before the Great Lakes, a rift nearly tore North America in half—leaving behind Lake Superior’s depth, copper-rich ridges, and stories still told today.