the University of Nebraska State Museum houses many fossils and artifacts that tell the history of the state and region. Thanks to recent research by a University of Washington doctoral student ...

Herds of roving rhinos, camels and small striped horses perished at what is now Nebraska's Ashfall Fossil Beds State Historical Park. The layers of skeletons trapped in this ancient prairie ...

A Nebraska man's fishing trip turned out to be more eventful than expected after he hooked a 90-million-year-old fossil. The fisherman, Andy Moore, made the accidental discovery earlier this month ...

When Travis Benda and his sons ventured out on an early December deer hunting trip in Southeast Nebraska, they weren’t expecting to find a millennia-old fossil. The group discovered the lower ...

Deep-sea coral fossils used by researchers to study carbon sequestration in the Southern Ocean 20,000 to 10,000 years ago. The Southern Ocean played a critical role in the rapid atmospheric carbon ...

New research, published in the journal Nature, shows this partnership is so old that it predates the evolution of modern corals. Fossils found in northern Africa and Germany suggest that many of their ...