Yellowstone is what’s called a hotspot, where large areas of molten material stay in one place as the Earth’s tectonic plates move around. This type of magma is called “basaltic”, and it ...

Yellowstone National Park is partly famous thanks to its many geysers. Most visitors know Old Faithful and the Steamboat Geyser, and now there’s a new geothermal vent getting attention.

It is fed by the "Yellowstone Hotspot," where hot plumes of magma rise from deep within the Earth's mantle. In the last 2.1 ...

An enormous grizzly bear has been captured on camera prowling through the snow near a tourist hotspot in Montana ... evening near the town of West Yellowstone, shows the apex predator plodding ...

Yellowstone volcanism has produced some of the youngest rocks in North America. This same region also features some of the ...

The disaster was an eruption of the Yellowstone volcano when it was located in what is now southern Idaho. The hotspot has traveled across North America as the Earth’s crust has moved.

the Yellowstone hotspot had to melt through a diverse sequence of rocks including Absaroka volcanic deposits (53 to 43 million years old), Mesozoic (251 to 65 million years old) and Paleozoic (542 ...

Grizzly bears in Yellowstone National Park are waking up and most roads will open to automobile traffic next month, which means prime bear-viewing season is just around the corner. With this in ...