Dr. Gale Bishop, a North Dakota native and professor emeritus from Georgia Southern University, will present a special lecture titled “Two Thousand Sunrises — Ten Thousand Surprises! The Return of Sea ...

BOULDER, Colo. — Paleontologists recently discovered a rare mammal fossil in western Colorado. It's a genus of mammal that ...

Paleontologists have discovered fossils of Heleocola piceanus, a swamp-dwelling mammal that lived around 75 million years ago ...

Eberle said that finding mammal fossils from the Cretaceous period doesn't happen ... been very close to the coast of the Western Interior Seaway." She said the area of Colorado where this fossil ...

But then, things start to get interesting. By the Late Cretaceous, around 90 million years ago, the Western Interior Seaway formed, flooding a stretch of land from the Arctic Ocean to ...

The animal lived about 70 million to 75 million years ago in a part of the state that would likely have been a swampy environment.

A map shows the “western interior seaway” that separated Appalachia and the western U.S. Map of the Western Interior Seaway, which ran through Colorado and separated Appalachia from the ...

"The jaw, the teeth, everything was so much bigger than most mammal fossils you see out of the Cretaceous rocks ... scattered across the Western Interior Seaway and areas east of it, back when ...