Hidden within North America is a long-forgotten continent once ruled by a bizarre cast of dinosaurs – but only a handful of fossils have ever been found. It was a typically warm, humid day in ...

Here are some of the best photos ... shadow over North America, cutting a 115-mile-wide (185 kilometers), 10,000-mile-long (16,000 km) path of sudden darkness across the continent.

Fossils found recently in eastern North America provide evidence that similar dinosaurs lived on our continent. Elena Duvernay / Stocktrek Images Enormous, birdlike dinosaurs strutted across ...

Since we were young, we’ve learned that Africa, Antarctica, Asia, Oceania, Europe, North America and South America make up the seven continents, but a study published in the journal Gondwana ...

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 ...

Much more accurate is the picture Hämäläinen paints in his new book, Indigenous Continent: a North American history that encompasses 400 years of wars that Natives often, even mostly ...

Researchers have discovered that the North American continent is slowly losing rock from its underside in a process called "cratonic dripping." This is caused by the remnants of the Farallon Plate ...

Researchers from the University of Derby say that the break-up of the European and North American continents is still ongoing. Dr Jordan Phethean, an author of the study, said: 'The discovery ...

North America is dripping—with sizable blobs of rock sinking from the underside of the continent, beneath the U.S. Midwest, into the Earth's mantle below. This is the conclusion of researchers ...

The North American continent is "dripping" rock into the lower layers of the Earth, new research says, and in the process providing new information about how continents and landmasses evolve.

A study published in the journal Nature Geoscience has revealed a subtle yet significant phenomenon beneath the North American continent; its ancient bedrock is slowly dripping into the Earth’s ...