A bipartisan bill in Washington proposing an expansion of Big Bend National Park in West Texas unanimously cleared a recent U ...

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Rex, and its broader tyrannosaur lineage, remain a mystery. Now, scientists are taking a fresh look at tyrannosaur fossils ...

Property taxes remain reasonable by national standards, and Arizona offers several tax advantages for retirees, including no tax on Social Security benefits. The state also exempts up to $2,500 of ...

Tucked away just 30 miles northwest of Kansas City sits Weston, Missouri – a place where time doesn’t just slow down, it practically pulls up a rocking chair and invites you to sit a spell. This ...

See artifacts from Riverbend Park, spanning Paleoindian, Archaic and Woodland periods. Discover stone tool technology adaptations to climate change. These events are sponsored by the Fairfax ...

Nelda Goodman, a Menominee tribal elder, remembers when her white friend, Miriam Horneff, bought a ceremonial Big Drum on ...

Early wildflowers greeted the spring class of Fairfax Master Naturalists during their first field trip to Riverbend Park on March 14. The park, located along the Potomac River in Great Falls ...

This story appears in the December 2018 issue of National Geographic magazine ... commemorates the French and Indian War at Fort Niagara State Park in Youngstown, New York, in July.

As a graduate student working out of Chicago’s Field Museum of Natural History, evolutionary biologist Shane DuBay noticed soot clinging to the bird specimens he handled. Like many researchers, he ...