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 ...

A member of a California-based fight club seems to have attended an event hosted by groups with ties to an organization the US government labeled a terrorist group. Will the Trump administration care?

A study published in the journal Nature has analyzed 5,000 samples of a fungus that is responsible for the largest recorded ...

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

Although on paper, the Hollywood Walk of Fame sounds glamorous, Miley Cyrus found out that the reality is pretty gross. After ...

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.

rex’s direct ancestor crossed over from Asia to North America around ... and the massive southern continent of Gondwana, which included present-day Africa, South America, and Antarctica.