Researchers in Peru have considerably expanded the known footprint of Gran Pajatén, a pre-Hispanic settlement of the ...

A prehistoric sea monster never-before-known to man was hunting prey in North America 85 million years ago, fossils found decades ago in Canada reveal.

Long considered a disease brought to the Americas by European colonizers, leprosy may actually have a much older history on the American continent. Scientists reveal that a recently identified second ...

Long considered a disease brought to the Americas by European colonizers, leprosy may actually have a much older history on ...

The history books say Europeans brought leprosy to the Americas, but analysis of ancient DNA reveals that a form of the ...

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

Footprints found in New Mexico were dated to roughly 23,000 years old - about 10,000 years before humans were thought to be ...

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

For hundreds of years, Andean people recorded information by tying knots into long cords. Will we ever be able to read them?

There are many rare birds in North America, and it’s exciting for birders who catch glimpses of these elusive birds. Rare birds are often endangered, so conservation efforts are critical. However, we ...

the book that first has wholly described the world through a collection of maps. In particular, we here describe how the combination of a gestural interface and mixed reality paradigms has let ...