Be a paleontologist for a day at one of North America’s most fertile sources of prehistoric fossils.

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

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.

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 ...

Here they are, Wyoming: your dinosaur all-star team. We think these 10 specimens -- fossilized skeletons, skull fragments or a few scattered bones listed in no particular order -- are not only a ...

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 Big Horn Basin’s ...

A privately owned facility, the Wyoming Dinosaur Center opened in 1995. It was the brainchild of a German-born, Switzerland-based veterinarian and amateur fossil collector, Burkhard Pohl, who ...

A privately owned facility, the Wyoming Dinosaur Center opened in 1995. It was the brainchild of a German-born, Switzerland-based veterinarian and amateur fossil collector, Burkhard Pohl, who ...