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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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.
A thaw is underway in Russia, and it has nothing to do with presidential politics. Inside a cave in Russia’s Ural Mountains, where Europe and Asia meet, a team of UNLV researchers has found evidence of steady warming since the end of the last ice age.
Higher-than-expected radiation levels detected in liquid waste shipped from Canada to South Carolina illustrate the folly of shipping even-more-dangerous materials to Nevada by truck and rail, state’s top nuclear safety official says.
Legislation co-sponsored by Nevada’s Republican senator would give states almost unchecked control over how — or whether — certain animals and plants are protected.
The Department of Energy’s Yucca Mountain program was defunded and dismantled under President Barack Obama, leaving only a handful of scientists from the hundreds who once worked on the project.
The National Park Service is seeking help from the public to solve the recent theft of fossilized animal tracks from Death Valley National Park.
It’s been an up-and-down month for Joshua trees in the region. In California, thousands of the iconic desert plants recently won permanent federal protection.
Death Valley National Park officials said this year’s wildflower bloom is not likely to deliver an explosion of color like the one last year that drew record crowds to the national park.