Yellowstone, a popular tourist destination and namesake of an equally popular TV show, was the first-ever national park in the United States. And bubbling beneath it—to this day—is one of ...

Although they mostly go unnoticed by humans, small earthquakes occur much more frequently than large earthquakes, and knowing more about these tiny seismic events can help us better understand the ...

Curiously, animals are leaving the famed Yellowstone National Park en masse, leading many to speculate on the reasons why this is happening. The current, most popular rumor making its way around ...

Visitors watched as a bison slipped into a shallow part of a hot spring. stumbled into deeper water and quickly died at Yellowstone National Park. It happened on Saturday morning, June 21, at the ...

Fischer teamed up with a colleague to investigate Yellowstone National Park’s volcanic system. “Professor Brandon Schmandt is really the person who started this project. He’s a geophysicist ...

Bison — the largest land-dwelling animal in North America — have lived continuously in Yellowstone National Park since prehistoric times, the NPS says. The 2024 population estimate was 5,400 ...

Per USA TODAY: “Wildlife is not leaving Yellowstone National Park in large numbers,” Linda Veress, a spokesperson for the National Park Service, said in a statement to USA TODAY on July 21.

Fire is key to the ecology of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, according to Yellowstone National Park. For the first 100 years, managers extinguished fires to preserve park resources.