In 2008 scientists reported that rocks in Canada were the world’s oldest. New data appear to confirm this contested claim ...

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African wildlife explorer Rob the Ranger watches jackal pups at play, revealing early signs of future pack behavior.

An obscure rock formation on the eastern shore of Canada's Hudson Bay may contain the oldest known rocks on Earth, a new ...

Several sites along the Natchitoches Trace have been labeled as a persistent place, which is to say a place that has been ...

Donald Trump's suggestion Canada becomes the 51st state has brought into the spotlight international boundaries that have remained firm since a Welshman plotted them more than 200 years ago. Born ...

The Welsh explorer who put Canada on the map. 4 May 2025. Share Save. Neil Prior. ... "Throughout the 1810s and early 1820s, Thompson charted every inch of the disputed boundary, ...

The Welsh explorer who put Canada on the map. Image source, Getty Images. ... "Throughout the 1810s and early 1820s, Thompson charted every inch of the disputed boundary, ...

A British explorer has become the first woman to complete a solo traverse of Canada's Baffin Island. Camilla Hempleman-Adams, 32, pulled a sledge 150 miles in temperatures as low as -40C and winds ...

Zebulon Montgomery Pike was assigned the task of exploring and mapping both the Arkansas River and the Red River as possible boundaries with New Spain. Stephen Harriman Long was assigned to follow … ...

Sir Ernest Shackleton, a noted explorer and writer, is shown as he arrived in New York on the Aquitania, on a hurried business trip to Canada, Jan. 30, 1921.