2+ hour, 42+ min ago  (1713+ words) Only one specimen of Alcovasaurus has ever been found, named for the tiny Wyoming town of Alcova, where it was discovered more than 100 years ago. It almost went extinct again when a burst pipe destroyed most of the fossils at…...

1+ mon, 1+ day ago  (899+ words) Touren Pope was rockhounding in the Greater Green River Basin when he found a remarkable foot-long fossil. It turned out to be the shell of a soft-shelled turtle. When it was freed from the rock encasing it, the beautifully preserved…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (1464+ words) Paleontologists spent decades trying to explain "Devil's corkscrews," the bizarre spiral-shaped fossils found in Wyoming and Nebraska. Turns out, they were burrows chewed into the ground by prehistoric beavers 20 million years ago. In modern times, beavers make dams by chewing…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (1655+ words) The first thing visitors see when they enter the newly opened Natural History Museum in Abu Dhabi are four massive long-necked dinosaurs. Three of these one-of-a-kind giants, and several other fossils in the world-class museum, are from Wyoming. The Natural…...

3+ mon, 1+ week ago  (1741+ words) Have paleontologists found a way to tell the gender of a dinosaur? Based on some sexual kinks, preserved in their bones for over 66 million years, it's a possibility. It seems that while male dinosaurs got some tail, they broke some…...

3+ mon, 1+ week ago  (954+ words) A Utah woman's Monday sentencing for carving several figures into a petroglyph wall is being cheered by archaeologists in Wyoming. That's because vandalism is a growing problem at Wyoming's 666 petroglyph sites, and around the West. A woman was sentenced Monday…...

3+ mon, 4+ week ago  (1756+ words) New research has identified a dinosaur "mummy zone" in a series of ravines near Lusk, Wyoming. It's produced two mummies of a fleshy dinosaur with back spikes and hooves and scientists believe they could find a mummy of a preserved…...

5+ mon, 3+ day ago  (1640+ words) Aaron Clark has a small cow-calf operation on a ranch near Wheatland. But what he likes to lasso most are insects, and he's discovered several new ones in Wyoming " and some are now in the Smithsonian. Cowboys traditionally aren't the…...

5+ mon, 3+ day ago  (1343+ words) The first dinosaur eggshell ever found from the Lance Formation in Niobrara County has paleontologists excited. They believe it came from a Tyrannosaurus rex nursery and that full eggs care still buried there. Paleontologists have announced a first-of-its-kind fossil find…...

5+ mon, 1+ week ago  (1776+ words) People from around the world come to Glenrock to dig 67-million-year-old fossils from T. rex, Triceratops, and other famous dinosaurs. To make the most of the once-in-a-lifetime trip, they put on headlamps and dig in the dark. A plethora of paleontological…...