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 ...

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 ...

led by Paul Selden of the University of Kansas. Fossils of many extant and extinct arachnid groups have been found at Mazon Creek in the past. What’s surprising about the new discovery ...