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A giant flying squirrel — about the size of today’s house cats — once soared through the skies over what is now Southern ...

The rich resources of Pacific kelp forests helped humans populate the Americas. Now depleted by as much as 95 percent, they need our help to recover.

Poking holes in the sea floor that used to be part of the Bering Land Bridge, researchers have found that large swaths of it ...

For many years, archaeologists believed the first human culture in the Americas were the Clovis people, thought to have arrived in Alaska after crossing a land bridge—known as Beringia—from ...

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Archaeologists used to think that the Clovis people were the first inhabitants of the Americas some 13,500 years ago. The evidence from these ancient sites says otherwise. More recently ...

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