Winter is a quiet time for Great Lakes research, at least out on the water. Research vessels remain secured to their docks; ...

Sixteen dugout canoes, some older than Egypt’s pyramids, have been identified beneath a Wisconsin lake, turning a quiet ...

Adventure is mostly casual at the haven of more than 200 little birds, including weaver birds which stitch nests with noisy ...

Archaeologists in Wisconsin have uncovered a cluster of 16 dugout canoes in Lake Mendota, including one that dates back ...

Thousands of kids, a 12,000-year-old woolly mammoth, six galleries worth of history to learn and a million rabbit holes -- ...

Visitors may want to consider a combination of land- and water-based activities to see the full scope of what the Okavango ...

The team has several theories about how Indigenous groups created and used the vessels, which were discovered during research ...

Wisconsin Historical Society experts identified 16 dugout canoes in Lake Mendota, including the oldest recorded canoe from ...

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 ...

First Nations members and the Wisconsin Historical Society have been uncovering ancient canoes in Lake Mendota since 2021. The discoveries paint a clearer picture of the region’s Indigenous history.

Madison’s Lake Mendota is chock full of very, very old canoes. That includes one canoe that’s estimated to be more than 5,000 years old. Archeologists partially unearthed that record-setting boat ...