Around 50,000 years ago, North America was teeming with megafauna. Mammoths roamed the tundra, while towering mastodons, ...

And absence of other megafauna in kill sites doesn't mean ... Scholars generally agree that North America witnessed some rapid climate adjustments as it shook off the Ice Age beginning about ...

In North America, the wild horse is often labeled as a non-native ... and mistakenly assumed more diversity among extinct species of megafauna.” The fact that horses were domesticated before they were ...

That includes ancient bison. "They are the most recent arrivals into North America of all the Pleistocene megafauna," Lindsey said. The first bison species appeared around 3 million years ago in ...

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North America is the third largest continent in the world. It is located in the Northern Hemisphere. The north of the continent is within the Arctic Circle and the Tropic of Cancer passes through ...

Satellite images have led archaeologists to a new excavation site in Canada, yielding more clues to Norse settlements in North America. 5 min read This story appears in the November/December 2016 ...

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The playful North American river otter is equally at home in the water and on land. It makes its home in a burrow near the water's edge, and can thrive in river, lake, swamp, or estuary ecosystems.

The 19th-century British anatomist Richard Owen downplayed the role of colonial contributors and largely ignored the importance of Aboriginal testimony and knowledge in describing the marsupial lion.

North American studies is the multimethodological study of culture(s) in the United States (American studies) and Canada (Canadian studies). The discipline is based on the traditions of both area and ...