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Eleven-year-old Touren Pope was hunting for rocks in southwest Wyoming when he came across the fossil of a soft-shelled ...

An 11-year-old rock hunter has uncovered an almost complete turtle shell dating to roughly 48 million years ago. That intact shell secured a rare glimpse into a vanished river world before weather ...

An 11-year-old's casual rock hunt in Wyoming ended with a big fossil find. While searching for quartz crystals and other rocks on Bureau of Land Management (BLM) land in southwest Wyoming with his ...

CASPER, Wyo. (WKRC) - An 11-year-old boy discovered a nearly complete fossilized turtle during a rock-hunting trip in southwest Wyoming, officials with Bureau of Land Management said. Touren Pope was ...

CHEYENNE, Wyo. — A group of Wyoming lawmakers is bucking the U.S. trend of stricter renewable energy requirements with a plan to do the opposite: Fine utilities if they provide energy produced by wind ...

“It blew all of our minds," his mother said of the prehistoric find An 11-year-old discovered a nearly 50-million-year-old fossil while hunting for rocks with his grandparents in Wyoming Touren Pope ...

Touren Pope took a few days off school the second week of February, but this was not just some regular family vacation.

One of the world's best-preserved specimens of Archaeopteryx - the earliest-known birdlike animal - is headed for a small, privately owned museum in Thermopolis. The Wyoming Dinosaur Center has ...

September 15, 2022 ‖ The University of Wyoming Geological Museum has only one-half of 1 percent of its fossils on display to the public. The other 99.5 percent are stored away, and very few, save some ...