The history books say Europeans brought leprosy to the Americas, but analysis of ancient DNA reveals that a form of the ...

Bottom: The map purported to date from ... forward a theory that Zheng He discovered America 70 years before Christopher Columbus (1451-1506) did in 1492. Now the old man is preparing his next ...

The calendar for local events and activities is bursting with options as summer arrives. Some of the longer-running annual ...

Long considered a disease brought to the Americas by European colonizers, leprosy may actually have a much older history on the American continent. Scientists reveal that a recently identified second ...

Scientists have identified a new pod of ancient people who lived near the land bridge between North America and South America ...

Research finds evidence of bacterial infections causing the disease centuries before colonization. Leprosy already existed in ...

Long considered a disease brought to the Americas by European colonizers, leprosy may actually have a much older history on ...

Long considered a disease brought to the Americas by European colonizers, leprosy may actually have a much older history on ...

Footprints found in New Mexico were dated to roughly 23,000 years old - about 10,000 years before humans were thought to be ...

The raccoon has long held our fascination, admiration, and even our disdain. Perhaps no other animal has been as associated ...

A battle over plastic—a material so prolific the UN calls the 90 percent of it that ends up as trash a pollution crisis—is under way in Florida. Coral Gables, a small city of 51,000 people ...

Trump also tried to halt migration by making asylum-seekers from Central America wait across the border in Mexico for their court hearings in the U.S., pressuring Mexico to stop Central Americans ...