News

It probably spent most, if not all, of its life in the water eating… anything unfortunate enough to venture too far into the ...
Paleontologists found a group of four-legged Triassic creatures preserved in the same bone bed—but they don’t know what ...
For about half the travelers who stop in, Fossil Butte National Monument is merely a rest area on a lonely stretch of U.S.
There are also fish fossils from a commercial quarry in Wyoming, where for $75 a day, fossil hunters could poke around for their own piece of natural history. The museum displays at Portland High ...
While preparing to build a power substation next to a Utah residential subdivision, a prehistoric field of dinosaur and other ...
Triceratops is the official state dinosaur of Wyoming. Wyoming is the only state that has both a state dinosaur and a state fossil (Knightia, a fish).
Since forming two years ago, the Sheridan County Gem and Mineral Club has grown to 65 members. The club has offered a pathway ...
But, when the fish were alive during the Miocene epoch, the region was a lush, temperate rainforest. Paleontologists stumbled upon several intact F. brocksi fossils while exploring a research site ...
One of the 15 million-year-old freshwater fish fossils. The stomach contents of the fish show that they fed predominantly on ...
Dr. McCurry, the lead author of the paper, said that before this fossil discovery scientists lacked concrete evidence to pinpoint when this group of fish arrived in Australia and how they evolved ...
"The discovery of a 15-million-year-old fossil of a freshwater fish gives us a unique opportunity to study ancient ecosystems of Australia and understand the evolution of fish during the Miocene ...