Last spring, a friend from Fairbanks, Alaska, flew her family of five to Utah, rented an R.V. and set out on a western dinosaur tour that included Colorado, Wyoming, Utah and the Dakotas.

Andrew Rossi, a paleo technician, works on a fossil at the Wyoming Dinosaur Center in Thermopolis, Wyo. Steve Johnson for The Washington Post It was about an hour into our dig under the blazing ...

When the paleontologists and staff at the Wyoming Dinosaur Center and Museum learned they had made the first-ever TIME list of 50 coolest places in the world, they didn’t even ...

THERMOPOLIS — Dinosaurs made a huge imprint on the Big Horn Basin’s past, and the Wyoming Dinosaur Center in Thermopolis would like to put its own large imprint on the Dinosaur Center offers ...

For young dinosaur enthusiasts, there’s nothing more thrilling than a visit to The Wyoming Dinosaur Center & Dig Sites in Thermopolis. Housed in a warehouse-like building, the museum is far from ...

The Wyoming Dinosaur Center sits on the Morrison Formation, a huge deposit of rocks rich with prehistoric fossils. In fact, more than 10,000 bones have been found at the museum’s main dig site.

THERMOPOLIS — The Wyoming Dinosaur Center (WDC) announces the opening of a new permanent exhibit showcasing a new raptor-like dinosaur species. Scientifically named Hesperornithoides miessleri ...

THERMOPOLIS, Wyo. (AP) - The skeleton of a nearly 3-foot-tall (1-meter) cousin of the velociraptor will go on display at the Wyoming Dinosaur Center. The Rock Springs Rocket-Miner reports the ...

If you go. Wyoming Dinosaur Center, Dig for a Day. What: Dig for a Day costs $150 per adult and $100 for kids age 12 and younger. Admission includes activities, lunch and transportation to and ...

Wyoming Dinosaur Center: 110 Carter Ranch Road; 307-864-2997; wyodino.org. Dig for a Day costs $150 per adult and $100 for kids age 12 and younger. Admission includes activities, lunch and ...