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North America is dripping—with sizable blobs of rock sinking from the underside of the continent, beneath the U.S. Midwest, into the Earth's mantle below. This is the conclusion of researchers from ...

The Midcontinent Rift is a giant tear that formed in what is now the U.S. Midwest 1.1 billion years ago. Nicknamed North America's "broken heart," it is filled with solidified magma and lava.

Something very strange appears to be happening deep, deep underneath the U.S. Midwest and the Ohio Valley. North America’s geological core has persisted for more than a billion years; it’s what ...

Beneath the quiet plains and bustling cities of the U.S. and Canada, an ancient process is slowly playing out. According to a new study published in Nature Geoscience, pieces of North America's oldest ...

A study published in the journal Nature Geoscience has revealed a subtle yet significant phenomenon beneath the North American continent; its ancient bedrock is slowly dripping into the Earth’s mantle ...

Alamosaurus is the largest known land-dwelling animal to have lived in North America. (Courtesy Photo) Students from the Sul Ross State University Geology program visited Big Bend National Park in ...

Mount Denali, North America's highest mountain, is a beautiful sight. While beautiful, though, scientists have long wondered exactly how this mountain came to be. Now, new research has finally ...

A fossil tyrannosaur pulled from the badlands of southern New Mexico has forced paleontologists to rethink when giant ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American I’ve had my eye on this one for quite a while ...

A controversial new study suggests our geography textbooks should be rewritten. Since we were young, we’ve learned that Africa, Antarctica, Asia, Oceania, Europe, North America and South America make ...