Two obscure 16th-century German scholars named the American continent and changed the way people thought about the ... The Waldseemüller map, printed in 1507, depicted the New World in a new way.

Maps, such as the 1502 ... in the early 16th century and mounted in Naples, c. 1640) and exotic animals. Private Collection A zebra taken from Africa to India in 1621 was depicted by an artist ...

The Flemish mapmaker Gerardus Mercator was such a fan of the big guy that he put him on the front page of his 16th century map collection ... had a mountain chain in Africa and the ocean ...

The Portuguese fortification of Mazagan, now part of the city of El Jadida, 90-km southwest of Casablanca, was built as a fortified colony on the Atlantic coast in the early 16th century ...

Part of the Earth’s natural cycles of warming and cooling, heatwaves have always affected our planet. However, climate change means that intense and prolonged heat events are now impacting areas ...

has long been considered a modern condition of the industrialized West, with cases steadily increasing in North America and Europe throughout the 20 th century. New research conducted by an ...

A fresh clue to the lost colonists’ fate emerged when curators backlit this 16th-century map of what is now coastal ... living on the Carolina mainland west of Roanoke and Croatoan Islands.

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Look past the Spanish fort, ornate Moorish buildings and main plaza to discover Black history in St. Augustine, Florida. More ...

China is not the only culprit threatening the marine ecosystems of west Africa through overfishing (Nature 496, 18, 2013). The region has been the fish basket of southern Europe since the 1960s ...

Nikkolas Smith, the bestselling illustrator, has a new children's book that takes a look at the innovative, creative dawn of ...