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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

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

The first museum in the world devoted to 🦖 dinosaurs and other extinct animals was almost built in New York’s Central Park!

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

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

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

Enter Dr. Stephen Rowland, a professional paleontologist with the Las Vegas Natural History Museum and the University of Nevada, Las Vegas.

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 (AP) - A northern Nevada man’s backyard tree-planting project has turned up bones that he and a researcher think might be from the

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

Steve Rowland, a professor emeritus of geology at UNLV and Lab Manager at the Las Vegas Natural History Museum, estimates they're 313 millio

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

Nevada was once largely covered in water, which is why the state’s fossil is a prehistoric marine animal called an Ichthyosaur (genus...

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

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

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