This ant species had rarely been documented, but N.C. State student Michelle Kirchner collected a colony of the ants ... along a dead tree branch led North Carolina State University Ph.D student ...

Ever since White’s puzzlement, many people have developed many theories of what happened to the lost colonists.

The basic beats of the story behind the Lost Colony of Roanoke go something ... settled on an island off the coast of modern-day North Carolina, only to vanish (nearly) without a trace within ...

Brent Lane, who taught heritage economics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, grew up fascinated by Lost Colony legends and owns a modern copy of White’s watercolor map.

Before the Revolution, even before Jamestown, an English colony was established in what is now North Carolina. Intended as an additional source of income for the kingdom, conditions quickly turned ...

He's co-authored a forthcoming book, Becoming the Lost Colony: The History ... theater on the Outer Banks – a production many North Carolina students attend each year. The story told on that ...

They become known simply as The Lost Colony of Roanoke. “It’s a mystery that may never be solved,” Park Guide Lauren Spier explained on a ranger talk at Fort Raleigh National Historic Site near Manteo ...

MANTEO, N.C. — Archaeologists say an unearthed copper earring likely came from European explorers who made up part of the "Lost Colony" in modern-day Roanoke Island, North Carolina. The ...