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Tribal Historic Preservation Program Announces the Signing of 200th THPO Agreement

November 13, 2020 – In observance of November as Native American Heritage Month, the National Park Service Tribal Historic Preservation Program announces a major milestone as the 200th Tribal Historic Preservation Agreement has been signed. The agreement with the Paiute-Shoshone Tribe of the Fallon Reservation and Colony, Nevada, completed in July 2020, was the 200th such agreement

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Fossil discovery from Petrified Forest National Park reveals new species of ancient mammal relative

Petrified Forest, AZ – In a research article published today in the journal Biology Letters, a collaborative group of paleontologists from Virginia Tech, the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, University of Washington, and Petrified Forest National Park describe a new cynodont (early mammal relative) species named Kataigidodon venetus. The study, led by Ben Kligman

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