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Underneath our feet are what's left of the bones of millions of animals that roamed the Rockies long before we were born. The fossils of dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures can be found from Idaho to Wyoming to Canada, if you know where to look for them.
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Well-prepared fourth graders lobbied lawmakers to designate the Oryctodromeus as Idaho’s official State dinosaur.
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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.
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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.
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Imagine something like a velociraptor, but faster and stronger, and with feathers.Paleontologists at the State Museum of Pennsylvania are calling their…
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A new exhibit has opened at the Discovery Center of Idaho. On display is a cast of Tinker, the most intact fossil of a juvenile T-Rex that exists anywhere…
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Paleontologists have found a new species of tyrannosaur based on fossils in Emery County, Utah. Lindsay Zanno found the fossilized leg bone sticking out...
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If you own mineral rights to a piece of private property and an important dinosaur fossil is discovered there, do you own the fossil? A federal district...
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New research shows that horse-sized, T-Rex-like dinosaurs roamed southern Idaho 100 million years ago. This discovery shows Idaho was home to more types…
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The discovery of a mammoth skull near eastern Idaho’s American Falls reservoir recently made national headlines. But scientists' work on the mammoth has…