Matthew Gregg was walking Charlie Brown, his German shorthaired pointer, when the dog discovered a fossil among the beach debris.

America’s national parks recorded about 325.5 million visits in 2023, and that popularity often results in crowded trails and full parking lots. On the other hand, many state parks offer equally ...

After emailing the Edelman Fossil Park & Museum of Rowan University, Matthew Gregg learned the bone was possibly 10,000 years old.

When the project is complete, Niagara Falls State Park will feature nearly five miles of continuous shoreline along the Niagara River. Ad Meskens via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 3.0 For more than ...

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It had been awhile since I had visited Versailles State Park. A year to be exact. So I decided to make the drive down to the Southeast part of the state to hike at this beautiful park. It’s one of the ...

BAXTER — Construction work on the Highway 210 project is expected to start in 2027 in Baxter, the following year after the project starts in Brainerd. On Jan. 20, the Baxter City Council entered into ...

For some U.S. residents, it can take a day or two to reach the nearest national park. And when you finally arrive—especially during the busy summer months and shoulder seasons—the parks are often too ...

National parks get all the attention, but some of the country's most striking landscapes are found in lesser-known—and therefore less busy—state parks. From the caves of Ohio's Hocking Hills State ...

The Dr. John “Jack” Kaye Cretaceous Fossil Park is now mostly funded thanks to a grant from the Mississippi Outdoor Stewardship Trust Fund. The city was awarded a $536,950 grant on Jan. 12, which will ...

A routine parking lot project at Dinosaur National Monument has unearthed dinosaur fossils at the site for the first time in more than a century. Workers uncovered the fossils near the Quarry Exhibit ...

One of the weirdest animals that ever lived may have been a scavenger. A re-examination of fossils first described in the 1970s seems to show a swarm of Hallucigenia feeding on the corpse of a comb ...