Montana, a state with more than its fair share of natural hot springs, makes this ideal a ... water are not always recognized by mainstream Western medicine, it’s generally believed that natural ...

The work, published in Nature Communications, offers insight into how early life adapted from a low-oxygen atmosphere to the one that exists today.

"My ancestors, who settled in Montana in the 1860s ... thermal wonders in the western United States? Look to the mountains. Of the country's 1,661 natural hot springs, more than a thousand ...

The work builds on more than two decades of scientific research in Yellowstone National Park by MSU professor Bill Inskeep.