CASPER — Touren Pope took a few days off school the second week of February, but this was not just some regular family vacation. Pope headed up to Casper from Elko, Nevada, on Monday to provide a ...

The Tate Geological Museum is one of the few museums in Wyoming that focuses on geology and paleontology. The museum has a collection of over 3,000 fossil and mineral specimens, including dinosaurs ...

BILLINGS – An ancient lake bed in southwestern Wyoming known for producing tons of fossilized fish has now extended scientific knowledge about early birds. Found more than a decade ago in an area ...

An 11-year-old rock hunter has uncovered an almost complete turtle shell dating to roughly 48 million years ago. That intact shell secured a rare glimpse into a vanished river world before weather ...

Yellowstone Caldera Chronicles is a weekly column written by scientists and collaborators of the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory. This week's contribution is from Christina George, outreach and ...

The first day of the field season dawns clear and bright, with an already strong sun sliding up from behind Cloud Peak, the highest in the Bighorn Mountains. Down here in the basin it is already warm ...

A chicken-sized dino, the oldest known in North America, has thrown a wrench in the widely accepted timeline of early dinosaur history. Reading time 3 minutes Though paleontologists have been ...

PITTSBURGH — A Wyoming rancher with no connection to the University of Pittsburgh has given the school 4,700 acres of land littered with dinosaur fossils. The university plans to maintain the land, ...

UW Ph.D. student Sheida Sheikheh, in the Department of Energy and Petroleum Engineering, takes a measurement in the field as part of the Wyoming Geohydrogen Exploration Project. (Sarah Buckhold Photo) ...

“It’s a geologic wonderland,” said Tom Drean, state geologist for the Wyoming State Geological Survey. The fossils of the area were first noted in diaries and journals by Euro-Americans exploring the ...