After a decades-long campaign to beat the parasites down to Panama, they’re speeding back up north.

The North American prairie rivals the Amazon rainforest in its biological diversity, and it’s disappearing even faster.

Earth may not have seven continents after all. From the earliest of grades, schoolchildren around the world have memorized ...

UNC-Chapel Hill history professor Kathleen DuVal recently won a Pulitzer Prize for her book, "Native Nations," which ...

An aurora stunned a NASA astronaut as it appeared at sunset over the northern US and Canada as she attempted to capture ...

Over thousands of years, humans from Eurasia trekked more than 12,400 miles to eventually reach the southernmost tip of South ...

T. rex evolved in North America from Asian ancestors. Climate shifts and extinction events helped tyrannosaurids and ...

Billion Years Ago, a Rift Nearly Split North America in Two and It Left Behind a Mysterious Scar Around a billion years ago, ...

Kathleen DuVal, Ph.D. ’01, won the 2025 Pulitzer Prize in History for her book Native Nations: A Millennium in North America ...

Europe has its own fast-food scene, with homegrown chains serving everything from currywurst and falafel to loaded fries and ...

Many robins don’t leave Alaska at all, spending the winter in Anchorage, the Kenai Peninsula, Kodiak Island, Valdez, Cordova ...

With their nocturnal habits and behaviour that largely keeps them away from humans, bats can sometimes stay out of sight and ...