The fossilized remains belong to Cosmopolitodus hastalis – an extinct mackerel shark closely related to the modern great ...

Paleontologists in Peru on Monday unveiled the 9-million-year-old fossil of a relative of the great white shark that once ...

Paleontologists in Peru have discovered a 9-million-year-old fossil of Cosmopolitodus Hastalis, a relative of the great white ...

Nevada's only designated National Park lies in the rugged and remote Great Basin of Northern Nevada. Its remoteness grea ...

According to Accuweather, Santa Ana winds occur when air from a region of high pressure over the dry Great Basin region of the ... California news at The Desert Sun. Reach her at pbarraza@ ...

Santa Anas are dry, warm and gusty northeast winds that blow from the interior of Southern California toward the coast and offshore, moving in the opposite direction of the normal onshore flow ...

“This is a historic day for Ash Meadows and the entire Amargosa River watershed,” said Patrick Donnelly, Great Basin director at the Center for Biological Diversity and a longtime local resident. “Ash ...

The Great Basin can often act as a bowl as high pressure ... the mountains as it warms and becomes more compressed within the desert climates in Southern California. The air continues to warm ...

They cause dramatic temperature increases and decreased humidity. The winds typically form when a high-pressure system develops over the Great Basin, a large area of high desert that includes much of ...

NPR's Scott Simon reflects on the wildfires in Los Angeles, and the words of writers who were drawn to the city.

Other exploration campaigns to look out for are in Egypt, where Chevron and ExxonMobil are chasing an oil play offshore the Western Desert ... basin. Petrobras is also looking with great interest ...