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Celebrate Halloween 2020 with In the Dark: Bats and Boos Fest at the LV Natural History Museum
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Oct 21, 20201 min read


Fossil Bones and the Presidential Election of 1796 ― Part II
Early in 1797, Thomas Jefferson was still waiting to find out whether he had won the election (he lost to John Adams), when he unexpectedly

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Oct 16, 20200 min read


Fossil Bones and the Presidential Election of 1796―Part I
Dr. Rowland here for another #fossilfriday
Since we are now in election season, it’s a good time to tell the story of a mysterious box of b

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Oct 8, 20200 min read


World's 1st Museum Devoted to Extinct Animals
The first museum in the world devoted to 🦖 dinosaurs and other extinct animals was almost built in New York’s Central Park!

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Sep 24, 20200 min read


KTNV 13 Things to Do This Week
The following is a list of 13 Things To Do This Week In Las Vegas: The Living Histories program on Sept. 27 at the Las Vegas Natural History

Las Vegas Natural History Museum
Sep 23, 20201 min read


Who made the first sculpture of Nevada’s State Fossil?
Who made the first sculpture of Nevada’s State Fossil? It was Benjamin Waterhouse Hawkins, a Nineteenth-Century British artist/sculptor

Las Vegas Natural History Museum
Sep 17, 20201 min read


Great Deals for a Great Cause
The Museum has serving Nevada since 1991, due to the support of community members like you. In place of the annual Dinosaur Ball, the Museum

Las Vegas Natural History Museum
Sep 14, 20201 min read


Knowing Nevada: Finding Ice Age Fossils
Enter Dr. Stephen Rowland, a professional paleontologist with the Las Vegas Natural History Museum and the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

Las Vegas Natural History Museum
Sep 8, 20201 min read


LVNHM #1: 5 Museums Every Las Vegas Gambler Should Visit
The main attractions at the Las Vegas Natural History Museum are animals. You can enjoy specimens from prehistoric age all the way to the pr

Las Vegas Natural History Museum
Aug 29, 20201 min read


Ice Age musk ox? Carson River-area man finds bones in backyard
LAS VEGAS (AP) - A northern Nevada man’s backyard tree-planting project has turned up bones that he and a researcher think might be from the

Las Vegas Natural History Museum
Aug 29, 20201 min read


UNLV professor says Grand Canyon reptile tracks among earliest on earth
Fossilized animal tracks discovered in the Grand Canyon were likely left by a reptile some 313 million years ago, among the oldest found on

Las Vegas Natural History Museum
Aug 26, 20201 min read


Rock fall at Grand Canyon Reveals Ancient Animal Footprints
Steve Rowland, a professor emeritus of geology at UNLV and Lab Manager at the Las Vegas Natural History Museum, estimates they're 313 millio

Las Vegas Natural History Museum
Aug 24, 20200 min read


Rock fall at Grand Canyon reveals ancient animal footprints
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. — It's something like a modern-day chuckwalla, side-stepping sand dunes on an island in what now is Grand Canyon National P

Las Vegas Natural History Museum
Aug 23, 20201 min read
What is a Horseshoe Crab?
Nevada was once largely covered in water, which is why the state’s fossil is a prehistoric marine animal called an Ichthyosaur (genus...
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Aug 22, 20202 min read


Backyard fossil mystery explored by Las Vegas paleontologist
Tom Gordon of Carson City didn’t expect his backyard to become an excavation site when he starting planting trees this summer, but that’s wh

Las Vegas Natural History Museum
Aug 17, 20201 min read


Ice Age fossils discovered in Carson City – Video
Steve Rowland, paleontologist and professor of geology at UNLV, discusses the Ice Age fossils recently extracted from private property in Ca

Las Vegas Natural History Museum
Aug 13, 20201 min read


Trove of Ice Age fossils found in Carson City backyard now at Las Vegas Natural History Museum
Tom Gordon of Carson City, Nev. was digging a trench for a water line in his backyard when he began to find bones that turned out to be the

Las Vegas Natural History Museum
Aug 12, 20200 min read


Trove of Ice Age Fossils Found in Carson City Backyard Now at Las Vegas Natural History Museum
Tom Gordon of Carson City, NV was digging a trench in his backyard when he found bones that turned out to be musk ox fossils now at LVNHM

Las Vegas Natural History Museum
Aug 10, 20203 min read


Trove of Ice Age fossils found in Carson City backyard now at Las Vegas Natural History Museum
Rowland added that the animal whose bones most closely match the shapes of the Carson City bones, is a musk ox-a long-haired, cow-like anima

Las Vegas Natural History Museum
Aug 9, 20200 min read
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