The research team has been tracking this comeback, and this current finding is particularly good news. Researchers capture ...

New Mexico geologist and author Magdalena Sandoval Donahue discusses the interesting geology of the Santa Fe National Forest ...

When it rains day after day like it has this month in a lot of Texas, it is easy to get tired of it. But be careful what you ...

When it rains day after day like it has this month in a lot of Texas, it is easy to get tired of it. But be careful what you ...

Communities in El Paso and the Trans-Pecos region align more closely with the cultural Southwest than with populations in the South, while Amarillo and Lubbock feel firmly rooted in the Great Plains.

Research on West Texas black bears was underway over the weekend as Caitlin Camp Pappas and Nicole Dickan with the Borderlands Research Institute conducted a series of den checks in the Trans Pecos ...

Broadbanded copperhead: About two feet long, widely scattered in central and western Texas. Trans-Pecos copperhead: 20-30 inches long and found near the southern part of the Trans-Pecos.

Biology ‘Old Stump’ in Texas Turns Out to Be Incredibly Rare Mammoth Tusk The tusk may have belonged to a Columbian mammoth, an Ice Age species that disappeared over 11,000 years ago.

The hunter—whose name has not been released—found the tusk on O2 Ranch, a 272,000-acre property in the Trans-Pecos region of West Texas.

Sul Ross University announced its researchers have confirmed an unusual find: a mammoth tusk on a ranch in the Trans Pecos region of West Texas.

The discovery marks only the second time a mammoth tusk in the Trans-Pecos region has been carbon dated. The last one was found in Fort Stockton in the 1960s, when carbon dating was only about 10 ...

Editor’s note: A version of this post was first published on March 30, 2022. The desert mule deer is a common sight in the Trans-Pecos region of west Texas, but when wildlife biologists ...