Horse bones found in Gypsum Cave in the 1930s were so well preserved they were mistaken for modern equines and filed away in museums. Now they have helped identify a new type of extinct, stilt-legged horse that vanished eons ago.
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The unprecedented order issued this week by State Engineer Jason King prohibits new domestic wells anywhere in the Pahrump Valley unless property owners first purchase existing water rights.
A 76-year-old thrill-seeker from Parkland, Washington, is headed to Nevada next year in hopes of breaking the world land-speed record — and the sound barrier — in a car built from the husk of an old fighter jet.
The public comment period is now open for anyone with something to say about the Air Force’s plans to expand its vast training range and close off more of Desert National Wildlife Refuge north of Las Vegas.
Conservationists have acquired another key stretch of the Amargosa River in Nye County as part of their ongoing work to protect an isolated pocket of riparian habitat and its rare residents at the northern edge of the Mojave Desert.
Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto, D-Nev., on Tuesday said President Donald Trump’s tax reform plan should set aside 5 percent of funding for transportation projects and infrastructure that will accommodate the next generation of “smart” vehicles.
Scientists led by UNLV researcher Brian Hedlund are studying the microorganisms in a near-200-degree environment in search of clues about life on Earth and elsewhere, bolstered by a new $900,000 grant from NASA.
National Park Service employees had to roll out about 600 feet of hose to erase the latest graffiti at Death Valley: large letters and symbols scratched into the mud bottom of Ubehebe Crater at the northern end of the national park.
Members of a scuba group for wounded veterans joined National Park Service divers at Lake Mohave this week to explore submerged historical sites in the Colorado River lake.
A plume of white smoke spotted this week at a hazardous waste dump south of Beatty was steam released during a treatment process to neutralize a tanker of acidic liquid waste, according to state regulators.