Reigning Olympic champion Camryn Rogers made her first trip to Africa worthwhile, dominating the women’s hammer throw field ...

White-tailed deer have been hunted from the earliest migrations of people into North America, over 15,000 years ago. The ...

UNC historian Kathleen DuVal has won the Pulitzer Prize for her book "Native Nations: A Millennium in North America." ...

Given their abundance in American backyards, gardens and highway corridors these days, it may be surprising to learn that ...

As we approach solstice, U.S states are now the best place to see the Northern Lights. With recent geomagnetic storms ...

Scientists have identified a new pod of ancient hunter-gatherers who lived near the land bridge between North America and ...

LiveScience reports that a team of researchers analyzed ancient remains found at the Cooper’s Ferry archaeological site ...

Steve Nix is a member of the Society of American Foresters and a former forest ... If you've seen iconic images of huge trees in sandy soils draped in Spanish moss, you've likely seen live oaks.

Scientists have uncovered a massive ancient geological feature beneath the Midwestern United States — a billion-year-old rift valley that nearly split the North American continent in two. This ...

The rifting began roughly 1.1 billion years ago due to tectonic forces pulling what is now the North American continent in opposite directions. Evidence suggests the rifting process stalled about ...

The Midcontinent Rift is a giant tear that formed in what is now the U.S. Midwest 1.1 billion years ago. Nicknamed North America's "broken heart," it is filled with solidified magma and lava.