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 ...

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 ...

Korth et al., Rochester Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology That material includes fossils, especially in the badlands of Wyoming, Nebraska and South Dakota, where fossils are abundant and can be ...

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 ...

The fossil will be dried out and displayed at the Lewis and Clark Visitors Center in Crofton, Nebraska. “That’s the whole cool thing about the whole story is an actual fisherman caught a ...

Lawrence W. Bradley, an environmental geologist at the University of Nebraska Omaha, argued in a lecture last Thursday that fossils taken from Sioux lands should be considered dispossessed Sioux ...

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 ...