The Pisco Basin is a hot, desert area famed for frequent discoveries of ancient marine species and was an extensive sea in ancient times, making it a reservoir of marine fossils.

A winter storm will move through the Great Basin and the Desert Southwest over the weekend into early next week. This storm may finally bring the nearly two-mon ...

Discover the otherworldly beauty of Mono Lake, California's surreal desert oasis. From kayaking through ancient tufa towers ...

Commissioner Wendell Koontz, who serves as chair of the Gunnison Basin Roundtable, was excited to delve into a full agenda of ...

The fossilized remains belong to Cosmopolitodus hastalis – an extinct mackerel shark closely related to the modern great ...

Paleontologists in Peru have discovered a 9-million-year-old fossil of Cosmopolitodus Hastalis, a relative of the great white ...

Paleontologists in Peru on Monday unveiled the 9-million-year-old fossil of a relative of the great white shark that once ...

The Santa Ana winds fanning wildfires that have killed at least 25 people in Southern California and destroyed more than ...

NPR's Scott Simon reflects on the wildfires in Los Angeles, and the words of writers who were drawn to the city.