The team found fossils of leg bones on the first prospecting trip, and knew very quickly that it was a dinosaur and Wyoming’s oldest, Lovelace said. But because “nobody knew the age of the Pop ...

Rossillon acquired the dinosaur—whose skull is among the best preserved in the world—in 2016, a few years after it was found in Wyoming. As if frozen in mid-swim, an Ichthyosaurus fossil lends ...

The Wyoming Dinosaur Center sits on the Morrison Formation, a huge deposit of rocks rich with prehistoric fossils. In fact, more than 10,000 bones have been found at the museum’s main dig site.

Once prints form, they could easily degrade and be filled or washed away. The Red Gulch dinosaur tracksite in Wyoming, USA, features numerous fossil footprints formed when the area was the coast of a ...

The darker-colored bones are the actual fossil bones, and the lighter gray bones are casts ... This specimen was excavated from the Morrison Formation at Sheep Creek in Albany County, Wyoming, in 1901 ...

For palaeontologists in the field, few techniques have changed much since the early days of dinosaur ... may be more fossils nearby. This bone was found naturally eroding out of the surrounding ...

Paleontologists gather around an area where a fish fossil was found at a new dig site in St. George. The St. George Dinosaur Discovery Site is starting the dig in hopes it will reveal new insights ...

Eight original and reconstructed dinosaur fossils will be ... The find, from Wyoming, is not part of the eight giant fossils on show. The exact species the bone belonged to remained unclear ...