All Articles Tagged As: north america
Project will track the evolution of shapes of ancient artifacts
...> Full Article
 | Scientists Team Up with Florida Aquarium Divers to Excavate Unique Site in North Port ...> Full Article |
Study will contribute to our understanding of early humans in North America
...> Full Article
A fortified village that pre-dates European arrival in Western Canada and is the only one of its kind discovered on the Canadian plains is yielding intriguing evidence of an unknown First Nations group settling on the prairies and is rekindling new ties between the Siksika Nation and aboriginal groups in the United States.
...> Full Article
 | A partial dinosaur skeleton unearthed in 1971 from a remote British Columbia site is the first ever found in Canadian mountains and may represent a new species ...> Full Article |
 | Science teacher has made tracking of the armored dinosaurs, known as ankylosaurs, something of a specialty ...> Full Article |
 | Earliest known human settlement in the Americas raises new questions ...> Full Article |
 | Paleontologists have long been perplexed by dinosaur fossils with missing pieces - sets of teeth without a jaw bone, bones that are pitted and grooved, even bones that are half gone. Now a study identifies a culprit: ancient insects that munched on dinosaur bones. ...> Full Article |
Anthropologists now believes the first Americans came to this country 1,000 to 2,000 years earlier than the 13,500 years ago previously thought, which could shift historic timelines.
...> Full Article
 | A Brigham Young University geographer studying timbers from the Salt Lake Tabernacle concludes those old walls can talk, and they tell a new tale of pioneer hardship. ...> Full Article |
 | The belief among some archeologists that Europeans introduced alcohol to the Indians of the American Southwest may be faulty. ...> Full Article |
 | Dennis Myllyla thought he'd struck a fine bargain with the Michigan Department of Transportation. MDOT would get fill for nearby highway construction by dredging a pond on his farm near Arnheim, Mich., and Myllyla would get the pond. ...> Full Article |
Research offers new insights into the world's oldest trees.
...> Full Article
 | New study is the first to document ancient hunting effects on large-game species in the Maya lowlands of Central America, and shows political and social demands near important cities likely contributed to their population decline, especially white-tailed deer. ...> Full Article |
 | At the end of the Pleistocene epoch some 10,000 years ago, two species of condors in California competed for resources amidst the retreating ice of Earth's last major glacial age. The modern California condor triumphed, while its kin expired. ...> Full Article |
Cashew nut fossils have been identified in 47-million year old lake sediment in Germany, revealing that the cashew genus Anacardium was once distributed in Europe, remote from its modern "native" distribution in Central and South America. It was previously proposed that Anacardium and its African sister genus, Fegimanra, diverged from their common ancestor when the landmasses of Africa and South America separated. However, groundbreaking new data in the October issue of the International Journal of Plant Sciences indicate that Europe may be an important biogeographic link between Africa and the New World.
...> Full Article
 | Utah and California researchers unearth new duck-billed species in Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument ...> Full Article |
|
|
Subscribe
