A fictional discovery of a dinosaur bone in West Virginia is the premise of a Parkersburg native’s new book. “The Dinosaur” by James Ankrom is set in Wood County in the 1960s and is about three ...

Can a skeleton be a storyteller? When it comes to dinosaur bones, the answer is yes — if you know how to listen! Prehistoric fossils are a wealth of critical scientific information. Everything from ...

Credit for discovering the first dinosaur bones usually goes to British gentlemen for their finds between the 17th and 19th centuries in England. Robert Plot, an English natural history scholar, was ...

“It’s easy to get me excited about anything related to fossils,” says Amy Atwater. That’s a pretty good quality to have when you’re the director of paleontology at Dinosaur Ridge in Morrison – and ...