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Title Section Last update
Pictographs and petroglyphs Essay 10/12/2011
Pinedale Anticline development Essay 10/12/2011
Green River Basin natural history Encyclopedia 1/31/2012
North Platte River Basin Encyclopedia 1/31/2012
Devils Tower Encyclopedia 10/12/2011

Recent Articles

Encyclopedia | The Powder River Basin: A Natural History
The Powder River Basin sports a colorful history. Bones of bison slaughtered by people, found south of Sundance, Wyo., date back 6,000 years, and northeast Wyoming remained a favorite hunting ground...
Encyclopedia | Samuel H. Knight, “Mr. Geology of Wyoming”
Samuel H. “Doc” Knight taught geology at the University of Wyoming in Laramie, Wyo. from 1916 until his retirement in 1963. For a decade he was the only geology teacher, but as his classes began to...
Encyclopedia | The World’s Oldest Building: The Fossil Cabin at Como Bluff
When Thomas Boylan started collecting dinosaur bones on his homestead in 1915, he first envisioned completing a dinosaur skeleton and using it to attract customers to his gas station on U. S. Highway...
Encyclopedia | Como Bluff
Como Bluff in Carbon County and Albany County, Wyo., is the location of one of the world’s richest quarries of Jurassic dinosaur bones. Paleontologists found excellent dinosaur fossils in greater...
Encyclopedia | Fossil Butte National Monument
The abundant vertebrate fossils of the Green River formation in western Wyoming have been known to science since the 1860s. Most are fish, buried in lime-rich mud at the bottom of freshwater lakes...
Encyclopedia | Legend Rock
Legend Rock, about 30 miles northwest of Thermopolis, Wyo., features nearly 300 images carved or pecked into a rock cliff by ancient peoples over thousands of years.
Essay | Wyoming’s Dinosaurs (and one Columbian Mammoth)
Wyoming's fossils have been important to science since the 1870s and continue to be useful today. Remains of Triceratops, Diplodocus, Tyrannosaurus and others have helped answer—and raise—many...