The remote Berlin-Ichthyosaur State Park in central Nevada is filled with slumbering fossils from hundreds of millions of years ago. But in recent years, this sleepy paleo-park has become a flashpoint of scientific controversy — and now it may just be ground zero for a new understanding of aquatic life in the ancient sea that once covered Nevada.

The history of Nevada is a history of extraction. Whether it’s coaxing crops from difficult soil, cracking open mountains for gold, even skimming casino money or milking tourists, the impulse to squeeze a profit from unlikely places seems embedded in Nevadan DNA.

Chef Chris Palmeri wasn’t satisfied until his career took a dive — dive bar, that is. Now his decadent, blue-collar grub draws a global crowdMoon Doggies isn’t the type of place you’d expect to find Oscar and Carolyn Goodman.

During its peak as a silver-rich boomtown in the 1870s, Pioche was a rough place marked by frequent gunfights, fistfights, you-name-it-fights. Its infamous Boot Hill cemetery is a testament to its trigger-happy ways.

“The funny thing,” says Laura Herbert, “is the reaction of (magazine) distributors: ‘You’re opening a newsstand?’ Because it’s such an endangered species.”It’ll be a little less endangered with the imminent debut of the Inspire Theater at Las Vegas Boulevard and East Fremont Street.

Who was Helen J. Stewart? What was it like to survive the PEPCON explosion? Read about our first (and worst) treasurer ever, the loneliest governor, and tales of impeachment, murder and more! Enjoy all the great (and not so great) moments in the history of the Silver State by reading about them in Issuu.

Sixty dates from our history, a number of which you ought to know (also, some jokes). From 350 B.

Need a good cry? Well, gird up your tear ducts for this high-intensity workout: Musical artist Mariza is a renowned performer and interpreter of fado, Portugal’s notoriously sad folk music that’ll turn your heart into a wailing smoothie of inconsolable lament. Enjoy! Mariza performs 7:30p Nov.

Scott McCombs has perfected a method for turning glass bottles into concrete. It’s clean, it’s green, it’s revolutionary.

UNLV’s Claytee White not only collects oral histories about life in Southern Nevada. She empowers others to do the sameOn the third floor of UNLV’s Lied Library, tucked in the northwest corner, is Special Collections.