NASA is collaborating with the Alaska Satellite Facility in Fairbanks to create a powerful, web-based tool that will show the ...

Humans may have arrived in the Americas much earlier than previously thought. The ancient footprints found at Lake Otero in New Mexico are confirmed to be the earliest known footprints in North ...

A millenniums-old settlement in Michigan has archaeologists rethinking the rise of agriculture on the continent.

If Yellowstone is dangerous now, it’s a cakewalk compared to the Pleistocene age where humans had to contend with mammoths, ...

During the late Pleistocene, the study reports, horses repeatedly migrated between North America and Eurasia, but after the Last Glacial Maximum, warming caused a land bridge to be submerged ...

The horse originated in North America around four million years ago ... climate change affected megaherbivore species in the Late Pleistocene. Horses have played an integral role in shaping ...

At a site known as Natural Trap Cave, a team of scientists are rappelling down to uncover the secrets of what the Earth was ...

North America’s geological core has persisted for ... By analyzing the waves, scientists can reverse engineer a map of Earth’s innards, Hua says. And the researchers sought to conduct this ...

And yet Connecticut—along with much of the rest of eastern North America—holds important clues about Earth’s history. This region, which geologists call the eastern North American margin ...

The discovery was possible thanks to a wider project led by Hua to map what lies beneath North America using a high-resolution seismic imaging technique called "full-waveform inversion." ...

North America cut 18 rigs week on week, according to Baker Hughes’ latest North America rotary rig count, which was released on March 21. Although the total U.S. rig count increased by one week ...

North America added five rigs week on week, according to Baker Hughes’ latest North America rotary rig count, which was published on February 28. The U.S. added one rig week on week, and Canada ...