1+ hour, 53+ min ago  (503+ words) Joseph Chavez has loved dinosaurs since before he could say “Tyrannosaurus.” So when his mother, Denette, was scrolling social media and found a video about a “dinosaur alley,” she knew she’d have to take Joseph, 10, and his little sister, Josephine,…...

3+ mon, 1+ day ago  (498+ words) An Albuquerque museum curator was part of a team that identified a new species related to the muskox — one that roamed thousands of years ago and found its final resting place in what's now known as Carlsbad Caverns. The fossils…...

3+ mon, 4+ week ago  (25+ words) Albuquerque Journal Step back in time Discover where dinosaurs once ruled New Mexico and the Southwest...

4+ mon, 2+ day ago  (570+ words) Scientists studying fossils in Albuquerque have discovered an early ancestor of the Tyrannosaurus rex roamed New Mexico more than 74 million years ago, according to a Thursday news release. Paleontologists have long debated which continent gave rise to the famous T. rex…...

6+ mon, 2+ week ago  (687+ words) The only permanent nuclear waste storage site in the country, the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in Carlsbad, has federal approval to add two new underground storage areas. The Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, or WIPP, stores radioactive waste, like tools or…...

8+ mon, 3+ week ago  (204+ words) LAS CRUCES — A geology professor who joined the New Mexico State University faculty this year is the lead author of a new paper addressing a long-standing question about the extinction of dinosaurs. A conceptual drawing by paleontologist Natalia Jagielska…...

9+ mon, 4+ week ago  (414+ words) A team of Smithsonian and New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science researchers discovered a new plant in Socorro County that was around 65 million years before dinosaurs roamed the Earth. A team from Smithsonian and New Mexico Museum of Natural…...