A Milanese friar mentions North America in 1345 text, 150 years before Columbus
It's the first written evidence that proves someone outside northern Europe had heard of America before Columbus's 1492 voyage.
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There’s a knowledge gap on effects of microplastics in North America, study finds
More research is needed to understand its effects on fisheries and humans
Scientists find oldest weapons in North America, questioning the timeline of the continent’s colonization
The Clovis might not have been the first to North America after all.
Found: oldest settlement in North America, confirms local tribe history
The ancient stories held some truth after all.
First humans might have arrived in North America 10,000 years earlier during the Last Glacial Maximum
A new study seems to suggest that an old but controversial hypothesis may be true. Humans might have first arrived ...
The dead center of North America is serendipitously located in a small town called Center, North Dakota
This was actually very challenging to pinpoint.
Skeleton remains prove first North American settlers came from Asia
The genome sequence of the Ice Age skeletal remains of a 1-year-old boy gave scientists tantalizing proof that the first ...