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Two tourists have ignited fury after being seen walking perilously close to the boiling waters of a world-famous hot spring. Footage shot by Tanya Saueressig, of Livingston, Montana, showed the moment inside Yellowstone National Park when two women began approaching the Grand Prismatic Spring around 7pm local time Sunday after veering off-track. The women nonchalantly walked on the spring's colorful microbial mats, which shine hues of yellow, orange and red thanks to the heat-loving bacteria around the edges of the pool. Saueressig said she stopped in her tracks when she spotted the women near the 160-foot-deep spring, which has a...

A bison was gruesomely boiled to death in a Yellowstone National Park hot spring last week — as tourists watched in horror. The buffalo met its ghastly end when it apparently stumbled into the scalding water at Midway Geyser Basin near Old Faithful, according to the park service. “There were two bison [standing] there,” said Louise Howard, who witnessed the bison’s death during her first-ever visit to Yellowstone, to CBS News. “I thought it was a great photo opportunity.” But the shutter-worthy sight quickly turned tragic when one of the bison stepped into a small part of the basin, then...