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 known as Fossil ...

A fragment of upper jaw fossil from the Early Cretaceous is among the oldest examples of a toothless amphibian in the fossil record Chihiro Kai The arid valleys of Wyoming’s Cloverly Formation are ...

KEMMERER, WYOMING — While he helped his father herd sheep as a child on their Wyoming ranch, Rick Hebdon noticed something strange peeking from the weathered edge of a stream bed. He leaned down and ...

Joe Kchodl, popularly known as “PaleoJoe,” recently returned from a summer trip to Wyoming, where he went “fishing” with his adult daughter Jen, who's known as “PaleoJen.” Although the 50-million-year ...

Nick Hornicak of North Huntingdon digs dinosaurs, literally. The 24-year-old Indiana University of Pennsylvania graduate student was part of a team of fellow dinosaur diggers who in June worked in the ...

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 ...

CHEYENNE -- Gov. Mark Gordon recently joined several Wyoming business proprietors at a trade show in Taiwan, where Casper-based Backwards Distilling Company and Gillette-based Big Lost Meadery are ...

Ancient lakes The fossils were found in a portion of what’s known as the Green River Formation — “one of the largest documented accumulations of (lake) sedimentary rock in the world,” according to a ...