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Limited municipal budgets can make it hard to keep the lights on in a museum, and funding for the collection, curation and study of fossils doesn’t always match up with rural areas that contain many fossils, writes Adam Larson.

It took time for the West to stake its claim to keeping some fossil finds at home. Countless fossils have been exhumed in Wyoming since the late 19th century, but the University of Wyoming Geological Museum didn’t have any Wyoming dinosaur fossils until 1961.

The prehistoric past can perk up the present. When woolly mammoth bones were found in my hometown in Wisconsin years ago, they became the centerpiece of one of our local museums. Today, they continue to...

Writer Adam Larson finds that when small towns in Wyoming, Montana and North Dakota showcase locally found dinosaur and mammoth bones, everyone wins: tourists, locals and museums.

The prehistoric past can perk up the present. When woolly mammoth bones were found in my hometown in Wisconsin years ago, they became the centerpiece of one of our local museums. Today, they continue to...

Struggling remote communities can benefit by keeping prehistoric bones in area where they are found, Adam Larson says in this piece from Writers on the Range

The North Dakota State Parade Committee has selected John Hoganson, North Dakota’s first state paleontologist, as grand marshal of the 2023 North Dakota State

The Gorgosaurus, or "fierce lizard," didnt have to worry about being hunted 77 million years ago when it terrorized the Earth. A cousin of Tyrannosaurus rex, the dinosaur could stretch to 30 feet and weigh as much as three tons. Armed with a mouthful of double-serrated teeth, it had no trouble stabbing and slashing the flesh of its prey.

North Dakota is a great location for fossil hunting. Enthusiasts come from all over to participate in public digs. North Dakota is rich in prehistoric discoveries due to its geography. Most of its surface is made of sedimentary rock that has not been touched by glaciers, creating ideal conditions for finding fossils. While most of the discoveries are by people looking for them, every once in a while someone stumbles across an ancient sample by accident. This is what happened at an oil drilling s...

BISMARCK (AP) -- Paleontologist John Hoganson with the North Dakota Geological Survey is heading four public fossil digs this summer in the western part of the state.