Between 128,000 and 186,000 years ago, when ice covered the Sierra Nevada, a lake 100 miles long and 600 feet deep sat in eastern California in what is now the ...

When people think of Death Valley National Park, they probably think of it solely as a desert wonder, full of painted rocks ...

Death Valley’s wildlife beats the odds in a place defined by extremes. The hottest, driest, and lowest landscape in the ...

‘“It’s 108 [expletive] degrees and I’m out here taking pictures?!?”’ SHOSHONE, Calif. – My trip to Death Valley did not go according to plan. It was nothing so dramatic as a scorpion in my sleeping ...

An ancient lake that thrived during the last Ice Age has reemerged in California's Death Valley National Park, after a record spell of rainfall hit the area, the National Park Service said. Informally ...

But there’s plenty of weird science, quirky history and plain fun in these 3.4 million acres of dry lake beds, towering dunes and wind-scoured mountains, which have been a national park since only ...

You’ve probably already heard of Death Valley and it’s extreme accolades – the lowest, hottest, and driest place in North America, the largest national park in the United States, and the film set for ...

The real Death Valley is an actual Mojave Desert valley in eastern California, so named when prospectors perished there during the California Gold Rush of 1849. It has a case as the hottest place on ...