The Cambrian-age Tonto Group is a set of rocks famous for holding clues to the burst of new life that reshaped Earth 500 ...

Lake Natron is a soda lake in northern Tanzania with a volcanic geology that maintains the water's pH around 10.5, which is almost as caustic as ammonia. Some life-forms thrive there nevertheless.

U.S. Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith reports that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is directing $136.5 million in FY2025 appropriations to Mississippi for work on 30 projects, including $32 million for ...

In a first, researchers from NASA and Virginia Tech have used satellite data to measure the height and speed of potentially ...

Mississippi's geological history ... jaw from a saber-toothed cat while looking for fossils along the Mississippi River. About the same time, fossil-hunter Eddie Templeton of Madison found ...

CAIRO, Thursday, Dec. 18. The gunboat Marmora arrived to-day from Yazoo River. She brings the crew of the Cairo, which gunboat was destroyed by a torpedo, twenty-one miles up the Yazoo.

A group of six hunters in Mississippi caught a 14-foot, 802-pound alligator on Friday, Aug. 30 in the Yazoo River. Screengrab from Megan Sasser's Facebook post On a rainy opening day of the 2024 ...

Dangers likely came in many forms, but the toe bone recently discovered in a Yazoo County creek came from ... ocelots and river cats. However, smilodon fatalis stood out, especially the fearsome ...

The Big Sunflower flows for 250 miles before it reaches the Yazoo River, supporting more than 450 species of birds, fish and other wildlife. The report cites the threat of a planned Army Corps of ...

Here’s how it works. Hunters have killed the longest alligator ever captured in Mississippi in the state's Yazoo River. The record-breaking animal measured 14 feet and 3 inches (4.34 meters ...