Mike Leaf paddled through some of the worst flooding he's ever battled in his front yard in a canoe Sunday morning, after a ...

The feat of Polynesian wayfinding—navigating by stars, wind, and waves—had long been discounted by scholars on the grounds that ancient Polynesians didn’t have the knowledge to be master navigators.

In 2021, archaeologists unearthed the remains of a 1,200-year-old dugout canoe from a lake in Madison, Wisconsin. A year later, they found a second canoe in the same lake—and this time, the vessel was ...

According to the National Weather Service (NWS), other than underground shelters, no place is 100% storm-safe. That said, the more walls you can put between you and the natural disaster outside your ...

Ancient canoes found in the bed of Lake Mendota in Madison are giving insight to indigenous ways of life for people living in the area more than 5,000 years ago. As WXPR reported in 2021, an extremely ...

Did ancient Indigenous peoples "bioengineer" the oak wood that was used to build at least some of the ancient canoes that have been discovered in Lake Mendota? That's what researchers are trying to ...

16 ancient canoes have been discovered in Wisconsin's Lake Mendota over the past four years. Researchers theorize that ancient Indigenous peoples may have bioengineered oak trees to make them more ...

Wisconsin Historical Society archaeologists have identified 16 ancient canoes in Lake Mendota, including several discovered this year. The oldest canoe dates back around 5,200 years, offering insights ...

Archaeologists have discovered 16 ancient canoes left behind by Indigenous people along the shore of a Wisconsin lake, in what they described as the prehistoric version of a modern-day docking station ...