Alberta’s beauty goes beyond Banff and Jasper. From wildlife spotting in Elk Island to hiking Waterton Lakes, road-tripping ...

July 2026 - 3 days  Register for 2026 now at [email protected] and we will contact you with confirmed tour details including dates and prices when available. A compact yet immersive introduction ...

Reservations for the Overlook and other backcountry campsites can be made online at the Canyonlands National Park Backcountry Reservation System website A rock art panel known as the Great Gallery is ...

The Grand Canyon is at the heart of the desert Southwest, a region known for its colorful rocks, slot canyons, and starry skies. From Zion’s petrified sand dunes, to Grand Staircase-Escalante’s ...

Horseshoe crabs are often referred to as “living fossils”, as their appearance has not changed in more than 400 million years. The researchers found that the ocean-dwelling Asian horseshoe ...

The fossil is a specimen of a species called Vegavis iaai, which lived around 69 million years ago – more than 2 million years before the mass extinction that wiped out all non-avian dinosaurs. It has ...

A near complete skull fossil found in Antarctica has revealed the oldest known modern bird — a mallard duck-size creature related to the waterfowl that live by lakes and oceans today ...

The extraordinary formations, each comparable in size to Earth’s Grand Canyon, are hidden on the far side of the moon — the side that always faces away from Earth — near the lunar south pole ...

Some paleontologists think that fossils recovered from Antarctica are evidence of birds similar to modern geese and ducks that lived alongside the dinosaurs. By Asher Elbein Asher Elbein ...

Fossil evidence suggests a temperate climate with lush vegetation, possibly serving as an incubator for the earliest members of the group that now includes ducks and geese. A paper published in ...

With 22 national parks and monuments to its name, Arizona boasts some of the most astonishing landscapes in the country, from the Grand Canyon to the towering buttes of Monument Valley and the ...

Researchers have discovered clear chemical traces of decaying collagen in a duck-billed dinosaur fossil, upending previously held notions that any organic material found within such ancient fossils ...