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