fossils

Sixty-six million years ago, a meteor struck Earth just off the coast of Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula. Dinosaurs and 75 percent of the species on the planet went extinct – but what happened to the flora and fauna that survived?Scientists from the University of Wyoming (UW) are part of an interdisciplinary team working to answer that exact question. Using clues from the fossil record, the researchers are traveling back in time to better understand how life rebounded after such a cataclysmic event.

In a normal year, University of Wyoming associate professor in botany and geology Ellen Currano would spend about a month searching for plant fossils. But…

One scientist thought he wasn't going to be able to go out into the field due to the pandemic, so he started looking for fossil plants from his…

Dinosaur bones are often scattered around, so it's important to figure out what bones belong to the same animal. That's difficult to do, but a new method…

New research suggests that certain rocks in Wyoming might be there because of dinosaur migration.Joshua Malone, a geoscience researcher at the University…

Caves in Nevada can tell scientists about the history of the climate in the West and what it might look like in the future.Matthew Lachniet, a geosciences…

University of Wyoming's paleobotany professor Ellen Currano contributed to a PBS documentary airing this summer. The documentary, "Prehistoric Road Trip,"…

This summer, PBS will air a documentary on the geology, ecology and environment of the Great Plains over billions of years. The first episode of the PBS…

Imagine something like a velociraptor, but faster and stronger, and with feathers.

What has sharp teeth, big, recurved claws, and is almost as long as a school bus?