Ancient DNA from southern Africa is rewriting the story of our species, revealing that some early humans in this region lived ...

Royal Air Maroc launches the first nonstop flight linking Los Angeles and Africa, reshaping West Coast connectivity via ...

Across many parts of Africa’s Atlantic coastline, the sea is advancing several metres inland each year, destroying homes, ...

The city’s new Caribbean Heritage Museum, with touchscreens playing neighborhood stories, walls displaying decades of ...

If the map of de la Cosa really was created later than 1500, perhaps the true earliest map of “America” is Martin Waldseemüller's world map. Created in 1507, it is the first map to depict the Western ...

Travel brings many pleasures, but for those of us with an earth science background, it is a special treat to visit different ...

Collecting historic maps is my primary obsession. I got started at the University of Arkansas when working on my master's thesis by preparing a series of surface geologic maps of the Keefer Mountain ...

Maps feel simple at first glance, but every now and then one forces you to pause and look again. The maps in this list play ...

Fossil skulls reveal how extinct mammals smelled the world, with new research linking olfactory bulb size to gene counts.

In the north, distinctive lineages such as M27, M28, and M29′Q trace deep roots in New Guinea and Near Oceania, while in the south, Australia’s own unique haplogroups appear to descend from the ...

Levy (1845): David Levy Yulee was one of the first senators of Florida when it became a state. He was also the first person ...

Want to go from Venice to the Swiss Alps all without a passport? Discover the movie location map that lets you see the world ...