Native American groups were aware of the region’s dramatic features. Since the national park’s creation, other faiths have ...

A new hole was discovered in Yellowstone National Park in April 2025, when geologists performed routine maintenance at the ...

But the eruptions left behind a new thermal pool. Ice-blue in color, warm in temperature and a little larger than a backyard hot tub, the pool is the newest known feature to bubble up in Yellowstone’s ...

Yellowstone geologists discovered the baby hydrothermal feature in April while doing routine work at Norris Geyser Basin, the ...

On Monday afternoon, the U.S. Geological Survey announced the discovery of a new geothermal pool in Yellowstone National Park ...

A bison roams in front of Castle Geyser in the Upper Geyser Basin at Yellowstone National Park, Mont., on Sept. 25, 2023. (AP Photo/Hannah Schoenbaum) A new hydrothermal pool has been discovered in ...

Horizontal view of a geyser, with tiny figures at its base, spewing water beneath a cloudy sky in the middleground, while visible in the left foreground is a basin and in the left distance a line of ...

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Tourists at Yellowstone National Park witnessed the tragic death of a bison who fell into the near-boiling waters of the Grand Prismatic Spring at Midway Geyser Basin, near Old Faithful.

Bison herd stops traffic as it crosses road in Yellowstone A bison died after it appeared to stumble into a hot spring at Yellowstone National Park last week while visitors looked on.