Google Maps began the process of changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America after a recent executive order signed by President Donald Trump made the name change official.

A major breakthrough in Maya archaeology has emerged from Caracol, Belize, where the University of Houston team uncovered the tomb of Te K'ab Chaak—Caracol’s first known ruler. Buried with elaborate ...

A trail leading from near St. Louis, Missouri to Natchitoches, Louisiana, teaches us about a race that ruled “the new world” long before people from “the old world” arrived.

Have you ever wondered what the largest snake in North America is? Perhaps you’re interested in snake facts or curious to see if you share a state with one of these giants! North America is home ...

The Columbus Zoo and Aquarium is opening the North America Trek, a series of trails through eight immersive habitats. Zoombezi Bay, the zoo's water park, will open the Conservation Tower, a three ...

A majority of North Americans are Christian. But Christian populations declined in the U.S. and Canada, while the unaffiliated grew, from 2010 to 2020, according to Pew Research Center.

Ancestral Menominee people in what’s now Michigan’s Upper Peninsula grew maize and other crops on large tracts of land despite harsh conditions.

A prehistoric sea monster never-before-known to man was hunting prey in North America 85 million years ago, fossils found decades ago in Canada reveal.

The opening of the Columbus Zoo's newest expansion, the North America Trek, has been delayed.

New research reveals North America's ancient bedrock is slowly sinking into the Earth's mantle due to the Farallon Plate subduction.

Something very strange appears to be happening deep, deep beneath the Midwest and Ohio Valley. North America’s geological core has persisted for billions of years—it’s what scientists call a ...

How did eastern North America form? Collisions hold lessons for how the edges of continents are built and change over time.