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The fire burns near Highway 518 in New Mexico on April 29, 2022. The 2022 Calf Canyon/Hermits Peak Fire was the largest and most destructive wildfire in the history of New Mexico. The fire burned 341,471 acres (138,188 hectares) between early April and late June in the southern Sangre de Cristo Mountains, in San Miguel, Mora, and Taos counties.
The location of the state of New Mexico. Paleontology in New Mexico refers to paleontological research occurring within or conducted by people from the U.S. state of New Mexico. The fossil record of New Mexico is exceptionally complete and spans almost the entire stratigraphic column. [ 1] More than 3,300 different kinds of fossil organisms ...
Life restoration of a herd of Mammuthus columbi, or Columbian mammoths. The extent of the fur depicted is hypothetical. Charles R. Knight (1909). Life restoration of a herd of Neohipparion. Robert Bruce Horsfall (1913). Restoration of a herd of alarmed Miocene-Pleistocene peccaries of the genus Platygonus.
July 22, 2024 at 4:05 PM. FBI agents have linked a man and a woman to the deadly Salt Fire near Ruidoso, New Mexico, from a vehicle seen fleeing at least five other fires and shoe prints left at ...
Salt Fire Date(s) June 17, 2024 (2024-06-17) – present (2 months, 1 week and 6 days) Location Mescalero, New Mexico, United States Coordinates 33°20′29″N 105°39′58″W / 33.34139°N 105.66611°W / 33.34139; -105.66611 Statistics Burned area 7,071 acres (28.62 km 2 ; 11.048 sq mi) Ignition Cause Under Investigation Map Perimeter of the South Fork Fire (map data) The ...
The Las Conchas Fire was a large wildfire in the state of New Mexico, in the United States, in 2011. The fire started in Santa Fe National Forest and burned more than 150,000 acres, threatening Los Alamos National Laboratory and the town of Los Alamos. After five days of burning, it became the largest wildfire in New Mexico state history at the ...
The evolution of fish began about 530 million years ago during the Cambrian explosion. It was during this time that the early chordates developed the skull and the vertebral column, leading to the first craniates and vertebrates. The first fish lineages belong to the Agnatha, or jawless fish. Early examples include Haikouichthys.
Valles Caldera National Preserve. Valles Caldera (or Jemez Caldera) is a 13.7-mile (22.0 km) wide volcanic caldera in the Jemez Mountains of northern New Mexico. [1] Hot springs, streams, fumaroles, natural gas seeps and volcanic domes dot the caldera floor landscape. [4]