We’ve all suspected that humans arrived in the Americas much earlier than was long thought by the researchers and historians. The ancient footprints scattered along the dried up lakebed of Lake Otero ...

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Three people were killed when monsoon rains triggered flash flooding in a New Mexico village, sending ...

It’s another piece of data in a scientific debate over when our ancient ancestors reached the Americas. For decades, ...

Wikimedia Commons/US Geological Service White Sands, New Mexico David Bustos found strange marks in the white sands of New ...

In geology, even small layers can tell big stories. But figuring out the origins of such small layers can be a challenge, ...

Mud never lies,” added University of Arizona archaeologist Vance Holliday, whose new work has turned a century of hypothesis ...

CaveCreek4.jpg Penelope Donahue points out fossils in the limestone of the opening of Cave Creek Cave while on a June 8 hike in Santa Fe National Forest. The limestone, which is around 300 million ...

The Trump administration’s proposed budget bill would cut funding to the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) by nearly 40%, ...

Geologists discover three unique new minerals at Cookes Peak, New Mexico: raydemarkite, virgilluethite, and stunorthropite.

The story involves an inland sea, powerful rivers, the shearing of the Earth’s crust along major fault systems, magmatic intrusions and volcanic eruptions.

LARAMIE -- The Wyoming State Geological Survey (WSGS) recently published updated geological maps of the Rawlins and Red Desert Basin quadrangles, providing critical new insights into the geology ...