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Meet the Extinct Camels of North America, From Ice Age Giants to Sheep-Size Runners

Largely outshone by fossils of horses, the earliest camels are getting another look from scientists determined to sort out ...

Fossils of Some of the Last Dinosaurs in North America Have a Story to Tell

A trove of specimens from New Mexico may help settle a long-running argument about the diversity of dinosaurs before their ...
Publishers Weekly

America, América: A New History of the New World

The histories of North and South America have been shaped by the continents’ relationship to one another, according to this scintillating study. Pulitzer winner Grandin (The End of the Myth) traces ...
Smithsonian Magazine

The Long and Fascinating History of Raccoons in North American Culture, From Symbols to Pets to Dinner

In the relationship between humans and raccoons, the black-masked mammals have played many roles Samuel I. Zeveloff The raccoon has long held our fascination, admiration, and even our disdain. Perhaps ...
The Nation

The Impossibly Intertwined History of the Americas

A conversation with Greg Grandin about his groundbreaking new book America, América: A New History of the New World. The “Visscher Map of the New World” including North and South America, 1658. A ...