Some of the world’s darkest skies are in the Big Bend region of West Texas – although in recent years, light pollution from ...

The US-based PBS show 'View Finders' follows two professional photographers in their quest to photograph America's stunning ...

It’s actually normal for that roundabout art installation, a 2001 deer family entitled “Big Ears” by Joe Halko, to be draped ...

A fossil from one of the largest dinosaurs to live in North America was discovered in a national park in Texas. In March, students from Sul Ross State University went to Big Bend National Park for ...

Budding geologists on a research expedition in a Texas national park have unearthed a massive vertebra from a long-necked ...

CORRECTION (April 1, 2025): An earlier version of this story said the weapons were found in Big Bend National Park. They were found in the Big Bend region of Texas, not the park, and the story has ...

The find adds to Big Bend NP's long-held reputation as a hotspot for dinosaur fossils. Previous discoveries at the park ...

BIG BEND NATIONAL PARK, Texas — Big Bend National Park is home to a previously undiscovered plant species, a tiny and fuzzy type of sunflower nicknamed the “wooly devil,” and scientists who want to ...

After this Texas neighborhood was under alert for a roaming black bear, discover the steps you should take in case you ever ...

Southwest Texas is the location of some pretty amazing parks, and I had the opportunity to visit two of them: Carlsbad Caverns National Park in New Mexico and Guadalupe Mountains National Park in ...

While many of Alaska's best destinations are tightly guarded secrets, the largest vehicle-accessible glacier in North America ...

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