Paleontology

Paleontologists collaborated with members of the Eastern Shoshone Tribe to honor the fact that the dinosaur was found on the tribe’s ancestral lands. We hear how the project braided together two different ways of knowing from an Eastern Shoshone elder and a research scientist.

A University of Wisconsin researcher came across the fossils, still preserved in their burrows, on BLM land near Dubois. He returned there over the years, eventually partnering with the Eastern Shoshone Tribe to bring local middle school students and elders to the site.

A newly identified sea monster from millions of years ago had a long, snaky neck and crocodile-like jaw. The critter was swimming around Wyoming some 70 million years ago, and was originally dug up in the mid 90s, before years of processing. It’s currently on display at the Glenrock paleontological museum near Casper, Wyoming.

It’s called Bisticeratops froeseorum, part of a growing, diverse group of horned dinosaurs that lived in the Four Corners region. The paleontologists who identified it say knowing about these diverse dinosaur species and how they lived – or died – in the ensuing mass-extinction is an important lesson to modern-day humans.

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…

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

PBS will air a three-part documentary this summer that explores Wyoming's geology and environment. The documentary, "Prehistoric Road Trip", brings…

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?

At 106 feet long, Jimbo the Supersaurus stretches all the way from one end to the other of the Wyoming Dinosaur Center's main exhibit hall. He's one of…