SCOTT CITY, Kan. (KSNW) — A recent collaboration between the Scott County Hospital, a local lab, and a museum may provide new insights into prehistoric life in Kansas. The El Quartelejo Museum ...

There’s a similar specimen displayed at the Kansas University Museum of Natural History. Though the museum specimen is bigger, it’s a composite and not a complete, authentic fossil.

Anthony Hensley, D-Topeka, said at the time. Kansas lawmakers in 2014 named the Pteranodon as the state flying fossil and the Tylosaurus as the state marine fossil. Fossils have been found in ...

of the fossil remains of a huge sea monster. A settler in the strip just across the State line found a bone projecting from-the sand of the Arkansas River bank. View Full Article in Timesmachine ...

Fossil hunter Alan Detrich, Overbrook, is pictured with a 17-foot Mosasaur, he discovered several years ago in Gove County, Kansas. Detrich, who has uncovered various dinosaur fossils says it took ...

Illustration by Gabriel Ugueto, courtesy the University of Wisconsin-Madison A chicken-sized dinosaur fossil is challenging the mainstream view of how and when reptiles spread to the Northern ...

Anthony Hensley, D-Topeka, said at the time. Fossils have been found in Kansas of both the Tylosaurus, an extinct reptile that swam the oceans that covered Kansas 85 million years ago, and the ...