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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

It took time for the West to stake its claim to keeping some fossil finds at home, Larson opines, but the benefits are inarguable.

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

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...

The prehistoric past can perk up the present.

During the late 19th century, paleontologists made huge finds in the region, excavating specimens of famed dinosaurs like Triceratops, Stegosaurus, Diplodocus and Allosaurus.

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...

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

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.