Families will have an opportunity to learn how rivers carve valleys; how groundwater flows beneath our feet; and how Wyoming’s rocks hold the story of water through time.

SHELL — With temperatures pushing 100 degrees, a half-dozen people spent a recent dry, dusty July day scrambling around an open pit, digging for buried treasure in the hills above the sprawling Red ...

Researchers surround the fully uncovered mammoth scapula, which is broken, in Natural Trap Cave in Wyoming's Bighorn Basin in ...

WAUCHULA, Fla. — Fossil hunters can sift through dirt and clay-like material at Bone Valley Experience to dig for a hidden treasure, and Sarah Bates knows exactly what she hopes to find. “I had three ...

This story appears in the May 2014 issue of National Geographic magazine. The Miller brothers looked more like prospectors than paleobotanists. Their beards were caked with dirt; goggles kept their ...