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.

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

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

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

Nevada's only designated National Park lies in the rugged and remote Great Basin of Northern Nevada. Its remoteness grea ...

Southern Californians are bracing for a windstorm described as “life-threatening” and “destructive” Tuesday, with isolated wind gusts expected to reach as high as 80 miles per hour and ...

Santa Anas are dry, warm and gusty northeast winds that blow from the interior of Southern California toward the coast and offshore, moving in the opposite direction of the normal onshore flow ...

LAS VEGAS— The U.S. Department of the Interior announced today a two-year pause on new mining claims on land adjacent to Nevada’s Ash Meadows National Wildlife Refuge. Federal officials will also ...

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

The Santa Ana winds are expected to pick up, making it harder to fight Southern California wildfires. The winds typically start with a high-pressure system in the Great Basin, which includes Utah and ...

Namibia's Orange basin and the Stabroek block offshore Guyana are set to enjoy top billing in 2025 as exploration efforts continue and new developments are launched Discoveries offshore Africa and ...