Dr. Rowland, a paleontologist, has published his paper on how blowfly cocoons helped to solve a 200-year-old cold case- bison style.

Quiz (answers to quiz are at the end of this blog). 1) Body Fossils include all of the following except: a) Shells b) Indentations c)...

Quiz (Answers to the quiz are found at the end of this blog). 1) For the process of mummification to occur, usually an extremely hot or...

Quiz (answers to the quiz are at then end of this blog post) 1) The oldest fossil of any gecko was found encased in amber. This fossil...

By Synthia Durrant Quiz (Answers to quiz are at the end of this blog post.) 2) Blue Babe the fossil was named after: a) The fossil...

Quiz (answers to quiz are at the end of this blog): 1) The word “brooding” when talking about dinosaurs refers to: a) A way of...

The most expensive fossil to ever be sold and the implications of privately sold specimens.

Fossil Friday goes to the newest discover of the Cymbospondylus youngorum that lived 246 million years ago.

Details of how our museum has survived 3 decades.

These herbivores were prey to animals like dire wolves and saber-toothed cats, said Steve Rowland, a paleontologist at the Las Vegas Natural

1. A new, life-size Dilophosaurus exhibit arrived recently at the Las Vegas Natural History Museum, with the arrival of Paleo Artist, Brian

A new, life-size Dilophosaurus exhibit arrives at the Las Vegas Natural History Museum created by Paleo artist Brian Engh Friday, April 29,

LAS VEGAS (KSNV) — The Las Vegas Natural History Museum is debuting its latest exhibit featuring a new feathered dinosaur. The new life-size

A towering, ten-foot-tall, fossil cave bear skeleton is now on display at the Las Vegas Natural History Museum, thanks to a generous donatio

You might not have guessed it, but among paleontologists who study fossil reefs, Nevada is quite famous. The earliest reefs on Earth, those

The 1993 movie Jurassic Park (yes, it was really 28 years ago ) introduced us to the idea of obtaining DNA from fossils and doing interestin

Paleontologists from the LVNHM are actively working on a 15-million-year-old fossil site (Miocene Epoch) in the Horse Spring Formation, nort

Seventy-five years ago, in 1946, an American artist named Charles R. Knight published a book titled, Life Through the Ages. You may not have

Megalodons (technically Otodus megalodon) are an extinct species of school-bus-size sharks that lived between about 23 million years ago and

Paleontologists often encounter a jumble of fragile fossil bones at an excavation site. Time may be short and the weather may be uncomfortab