7+ hour, 24+ min ago   (533+ words) A parking lot construction project at Dinosaur National Monument turned into an unexpected fossil discovery " the first at the site in more than a century. Construction crews paused asphalt removal on Sept. 16 after they uncovered a piece of sandstone containing…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago   (556+ words) New research out of Northern Ireland reveals there may be a distinct clue to determine the actual gender of dinosaurs. Paleontologists have been trying to identify female and male dinosaurs for decades, but it is very difficult to determine. Now…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago   (1115+ words) AMES, Iowa " Good Park sits in the shadow of the Des Moines skyline, just a stone's throw from Drake University. It's named for Charles Good, a 19th-century Des Moines businessman who has been dead for more than 125 years. But Good…...

4+ mon, 2+ week ago   (390+ words) A creature the size of a raccoon once roamed Utah and the West, featuring armored plates that made it look fierce. Think giant relatives of the modern Gila monster. The lizard's remains were recently found at Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument…...

4+ mon, 3+ week ago   (713+ words) A fossil bone found in a sand pit in the 1980s near the Green River has turned out to be much older than originally suspected. It dates back to the Ice Age. The shin bone comes from a species of camel…...

6+ mon, 1+ week ago   (490+ words) In a serendipitous occurrence, a dinosaur museum in Denver found a fossil underneath its own parking lot. According to news reports, the Denver Museum of Nature and Science, a dinosaur fossils hub, was recently drilling down hundreds of feet to…...

7+ mon, 2+ day ago   (529+ words) Hank Woolley was visiting the Natural History Museum of Utah one day when he stumbled across a jar labeled "lizard." Inside was a 76-million-year-old fossil that paleontologists had uncovered from Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in 2005. It was eventually transported to…...

7+ mon, 2+ week ago   (579+ words) Timothy Lee and other Natural History Museum of Utah staff closely watched as the race for Utah's NHL team name unfolded " with a vested interest in one particular candidate. Their hopes for the Mammoth then strengthened as the field narrowed…...