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Posted Dec 30, 2020, 11:48 am
Mitchell Zimmerman
/Cronkite News
A team of researchers at Petrified Forest National Park discovered fossilized remains of a new species of prehistoric reptile. The 220-million-year old burrowing species, named Skybalonyx skapteris, is a drepanosaur, an ancient reptile that had a claw on its tail and a birdlike beak.... Read more»
Posted Jun 1, 2020, 12:14 pm
Jeremy Duda
/Arizona Mirror
The curfew that Gov. Doug Ducey imposed in response to looting in Scottsdale on Saturday night won’t be quite as statewide as he intended, with at least two rural Arizona police departments announcing that they won’t enforce it.... Read more»
Posted Aug 15, 2017, 12:08 pm
Lauren Marshall
/Cronkite News
Less than 10 percent of students at 174 rural charter and public schools passed the math section of the AzMERIT test last year, according to the Arizona Department of Education.... Read more»
Posted Oct 7, 2011, 11:28 am
Anna Consie
/Cronkite News Service
The head of the Petrified Forest National Parks is quick to explain that the vistas stretching toward the Painted Desert hold hundreds of million years of history, from fossils of dinosaur ancestors to ancient dwellings. These days, however, his focus is increasingly on what’s beneath the wind-swept terrain.... Read more»