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Rare Near-Perfect Wyoming Triceratops Skull Debuts In Netherlands Museum
4+ hour, 5+ min ago (1203+ words) Veronika," an extremely rare near-perfect Triceratops skull from eastern Wyoming, has been unveiled in a museum in the Netherlands. Norwegian paleontologists were so excited by the find that they are sending more teams out to areas near Lusk to search…...
Near Wyoming: The Skeleton Who Walks A Giant T-Rex On A Leash In South Dakota
3+ week, 2+ hour ago (844+ words) For decades, motorists speeding down Interstate 90 in west-central South Dakota have done double takes at a towering human skeleton leading a T. rex on a leash. It's a quirky prairie creation born from one man's lifelong dream to build his own…...
Why 54-Million-Year-Old Owl Vomit Found In Bighorn Basin Is A Big Deal
4+ week, 6+ hour ago (1767+ words) A team of paleontologists that analyzed a 54-million-year-old fossilized chunk of owl vomit have learned that owls, famous for being nocturnal hunters, didn't use to be. Owls ate lizards during the day, not rodents at night as they do now....
Wyoming's Fossil Cabin, "World's Oldest Building,' Moved To Medicine Bow Museum
1+ mon, 5+ day ago (1825+ words) Wyoming's world-famous Fossil Cabin was built from more than 6, 000 dinosaur bones, weighs 52 tons and was a target for vandals along U. S. Highway 30. It made a nail-biting, 7-mile crawl this week to a new permanent home at the Medicine Bow Museum. Allosaurus,…...
Wyoming Woman Discovers Perfectly Preserved Dinosaur Near Alpine
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (1095+ words) A paleontologist said Heather Zamora's discovery of a small dinosaur skeleton near Alpine, Wyoming, is one of the best fossils he's ever seen of the burrowing Oryctodromeus. "We usually don't find them where all the bones are connected that way,…...
Massive, Near-Complete Mammoth Skeleton Discovered In Natural Trap Cave
9+ mon, 2+ week ago (1433+ words) The latest discovery in Natural Trap Cave in the Bighorn Mountains, considered one of the world's premier Ice Age fossil sites, is the nearly complete...
Fossil Butte Miner's A-Frame Cabin Tied To Legacy Of Discovery " And Death
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (1833+ words) An A-frame cabin at Fossil Butte National Monument was the home for a fossil miner as he discovered Wyoming artifacts. It also is linked to the poisoning of Wyoming's only convicted female cattle rustler. An A-frame hut that now has…...
People "Freaking Out" Over "Elkosaurus," Wheatland"s Sinclair Dino With Antlers
2+ mon, 3+ day 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…...
Wyoming Baby Dinosaur Skull " Second Of Its Kind Ever " Unveiled In Swiss Museum
2+ mon, 1+ week 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....
Wyoming's Actual Jackalope Is An Extinct Horny Rodent
2+ mon, 4+ week 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....