Beneath the Rocky Mountains in Colorado, scientists have detected a massive, mysterious anomaly buried deep underground, and their own findings have unsettled them. The discovery emerged during geological mapping, revealing a gravity anomaly that defies standard explanations for the region’s structure.
Colorado sits above a geologically active foundation that continues to shape its surface. Deep beneath the state, the lithosphere was weakened by ancient subduction, and the ground is still rising and shifting today. A supervolcano in the San Juans erupted millions of years ago with far greater force than recent Cascade eruptions, a mountainside near Lake City creeps steadily downhill, and in the…
In February 1999, Colorado biologists launched the state’s most expensive wildlife gamble, releasing wild Canada lynx into the San Juan Mountains—and within a month, four of the first five released cats were dead. Heated criticism erupted over the doomed start, but the team refused to blame the habitat.
In February 1999, Colorado state biologists began a program to reintroduce Canada lynx into the San Juan Mountains, releasing wild-caught animals from Alaska. In the first month, four of the first five released cats died, drawing heavy criticism and negative media coverage of the effort.Canada lynx had inhabited Colorado’s high-altitude forests for thousands of years. Unregulated fur trapping in t…