Learn about the comet impact hypothesis that may explain why North America lost most of its megafauna along with the Clovis ...

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 mantle ...

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, an ...

An ancient slab of Earth's crust buried deep beneath the Midwest is sucking huge swatches of present-day's North American crust down into the mantle, researchers say. The slab's pull has created giant ...

A study published in the journal Science Advances, indicates how the heating in North America can trigger remote effects in ...

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 from ...

Something very strange appears to be happening deep, deep underneath the U.S. Midwest and the Ohio Valley. North America’s geological core has persisted for more than a billion years; it’s what ...

Following Christopher Columbus' first voyage across the Atlantic in 1492, Spain and other European countries engaged in large-scale colonization that resulted in European settlers and their ...

PIJIBASAL, Panama -- Painted chin to toe with the black juice of the jagua fruit, the bare-chested 19-year-old mother sits atop her raised wooden hut and wonders about a place far away. Marta Manjoma ...