The oldest crust on Earth, known to be unchanging, is actually being altered in real time. The North American continent is ...

Tracking the footsteps provides modern scientists a view into ancient life.

On April 14, 1775, the first slavery abolition society in North America -- the Society for the Relief of Free Negroes ...

It’s possible that they reached North America more than 32,000 years ago. Now, “we need lots more sites to make sense of where they came from and by what route,” says Matthew Bennett ...

But why does North America, despite its comparable geographical ... million years ago), a relatively recent epoch of the Earth's history with a warmer climate than today. Before that, during ...

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 ...

Known today as the oldest Chinatown in North America, San Francisco’s Chinatown has a remarkable history that spans over 175 years. Initially only occupying the area around Portsmouth Square and ...

In this exhibit, you can explore the history of horses in the American West. Horses first evolved in North America. Some of their early ancestors lived 30–40 million years ago and were small, ...