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A visit during the winter season shows a completely different -- and refreshing -- side of the Park. Parts of the Park are dormant, as many species retreat into dens and nests for hibernation. But other parts seem even more majestic than during the summer months.

A small earthquake swarm continues in the western region of Yellowstone National Park, with one quake yesterday reaching 3.7 on the Richter scale, but experts say the activity is due to shifts in the Earth's crust, not any impending Yellowstone supervolcano eruption.

A small earthquake swarm hit near the Old Faithful area of Yellowstone National Park over the weekend and is continuing now, in what researchers are calling a common occurrence in the region.

Government officials say there's no way they can meet a requirement by U.S. District County Judge Donald Malloy that they maintain the Yellowstone Ecosystem grizzly population under the auspices of the Endangered Species Act.

Federal stimulus money will be used to add 10 more monitoring stations to Yellowstone National Park, providing even more data on seismic events and every little burp of the Yellowstone supervolcano.

If you're preparing your RV visit to Yellowstone National Park next summer, prepare for this: there will be no electricity at the Fishing Bridge campground, a leading spot for RV camping.

With the caldera slowing its rise and seismic activity in the Park receding to normal levels, a new stretch of stability may in store for the Yellowstone National Park supervolcano.

Ted Turner's offer to house 74 bison from Yellowstone National Park for five years is under criticism from activists, who say the billionaire is profiting unfairly from the proposal by keeping offspring from the herd.

Whether it was the bad economy, an increased appreciation of America's national resources or some savvy promoting by the National Park Service, it was a record-setting year for Yellowstone National Park, with almost 3.3 million visitors tallied for the year.

Researchers at the University of Utah say the most detailed seismic images yet published of the plumbing that feeds the Yellowstone National Park supervolcano is much different than previously thought, showing a plume of hot and molten rock rising at an angle from the northwest at a depth of at least 410 miles, contradicting claims that there is no deep plume, only shallow hot rock moving like slowly boiling soup.