7+ hour, 38+ min ago  (1014+ words) Elkosaurus" started out as some harmless fun, but has turned into a selfie-trap along Interstate 25 in Wheatland. People are "freaking out about our little Elkosaurus," says the manager of the Sinclair station about its green dinosaur with elk antlers. WHEATLAND…...

4+ day, 7+ hour ago  (1499+ words) The skull of a baby dinosaur found near Medicine Bow, Wyoming, is only the second of its kind ever found. Named "Lucy," the tiny fossil has been unveiled in a Swiss museum with its growing collection of Wyoming dinosaur discoveries....

3+ week, 6+ day ago  (1773+ words) The jackalope is mythical, but Wyoming was home to an actual prehistoric rodent with two large horns on its head. The Ceratogaulus is one of the only horned burrowing mammals in Earth's history, and it thrived by confronting predators head-on....

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (1774+ words) A Triceratops named "Trey" has been a popular exhibit at the Wyoming Dinosaur Center in Thermopolis for 30 years. Now on the auction block, it has a pre-sale estimate of $5. 5 million. Some worry Wyoming's dinosaurs could disappear "with one phone call....

1+ mon, 2+ week 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…...

2+ mon, 2+ week 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…...

2+ mon, 3+ 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…...

3+ mon, 6+ day 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…...

4+ mon, 3+ 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…...

4+ mon, 4+ 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…...