Paleontology

In The Moment ... October 15, 2019 Show 679 Hour 1After death, animals continue to play an essential role in the ecological process.Dr. Sarah Keenan, a…

The South Dakota School of Mines is teaming up with the US Forest Service to clean, prepare and catalogue fossils collected over 30 years. The…

A group of fossils from four triceratops found in Wyoming could change what scientists know about the dinosaurs’ behavior.Peter Larson is President of the…

Arthur Haas was one of two ranchers who found a fossil but didn’t learn until many years later that it was a unique genus of aquatic reptile. The Haas…

New research on a fossil discovered 40 years ago is adding to the understanding of a species of dinosaur that once roamed South Dakota. The Dakotadon…

More than 26,000 years ago at the Mammoth Site, large Columbian and woolly mammoths were trapped in a large sinkhole and died. Their remains were buried…

If you want to know how many horns a Triceratops has just ask an average first grader—they will tell you, three.But a nine foot long fossil skull of a…

Sue the Tyrannosaurus Rex discovered in South Dakota in 1990 was 40 feet long and one of the largest predatory dinosaurs. But a century ago,…