Paleontology

Lokiceratops rangiformis is a new species of horned dinosaur recently discovered in northern Montana. The skull and a sculpture of its head are now on display at the Natural History Museum of Utah.

This week we take a deep dive into the ancient, exploring the world as it existed over 66 million years ago, in an attempt to understand our present and our future. Creatures called Mosasaurs once inhabited our seas. They’re long extinct now, victims of the fifth great extinction event, along with 80 percent of the species alive at that time. But their lives and their world may give us insight into our own.

Utah is well known for its dinosaur fossils, but why do we have so many?Randy Irmis, a paleontologist at the Utah Natural History Museum, spends a lot of…

Almost 50 years after it’s discovery, a gigantic prehistoric reptile has recently been re-classified by the new curator of paleontology at the USU Eastern…

We’re talking about an ancient ancestor of modern anchovies, a fearsome fish that swam the seas about 55 million years ago — and, like so many other…

For more than a year now, we've been bringing together researchers from different disciplines in our never-ending search to build interdisciplinary…

Today’s program is by request. Aleq in Southern Utah emailed us to ask for more science on Access Utah and to suggest that we talk about the great work…

Have you ever wondered how monsters are created? Hollywood depictions of things like dragons and aliens may seem like the farthest thing from reality, but…

In late July, Kasey Keller was digging in a gravel pit near his home in Preston when he came across something odd. “You know, at first I thought it was…