In A Nutshell Researchers dated 136 preserved organic weapons from western North America and found the bow and arrow appeared in both northern and southern regions around 1,400 years ago. In the south ...

New evidence tells us more about an 11,000-year-old Indigenous settlement in Canada.

Largely outshone by fossils of horses, the earliest camels are getting another look from scientists determined to sort out the relationships and adaptations of these “absolutely bonkers” herbivores ...

A conversation with Greg Grandin about his groundbreaking new book America, América: A New History of the New World. The “Visscher Map of the New World” including North and South America, 1658. A ...

The pig dates back 40 million years to fossils which indicate that wild porcine animals roamed forests and swamps in Europe and Asia. Remains of the earliest known North American peccary, Perchoerus, ...

A pair of pale-billed woodpeckers with red heads and black and white bodies. (Courtesy photo) Photographer and author Paul Bannick will deliver an ...

The American Revolution was a conflict between Great Britain and its 13 North American colonies, which declared independence as the United States of America. The seeds of the war were the growing ...

1. Introduction to mussels and mussel ecology -- 2. Catching the mussel bug : a history of the study of mussel ecology in North America -- 3. Diversity and biogeography -- 4. Aquatic habitats and ...