In the summer of 1971, paleontolo- gist Mike Voorhies and his geologist wife, Jane, were living out of a station wagon parked in a Nebraska cornfield—their latest stop on a road trip to collect ...

Death was everywhere. Animal corpses littered the landscape and were mired in the local waterhole as ash swept around everything in its path. For some, death happened quickly; for others, it was slow ...

ROYAL, Neb. (KOLN) - A park in northeast Nebraska offers visitors a chance to see 12-million-year-old fossils exactly where they were found, with excavations still underway. Ashfall Fossil Beds State ...

Since the 1920s, people have been finding fossils near Verdigre Creek in northeast Nebraska. However, it wasn't until 50 years later that scientists discovered the site known as the Ashfall Fossil ...

Take a tour of a few special places on Nebraska's Niobrara River. ROYAL, Neb. — Ashfall Fossil Beds State Historical Park is nestled in the rolling hills of the Verdigre Creek valley in northeast ...

Ashfall Fossil Beds, a state historical park near Royal in northeast Nebraska, hopes to attract more visitors with a new learning center designed for kids. The Dickinson Fossil Heritage Center ...

These statues at Ashfall Fossil Beds State Historical Park can’t stay 6 feet apart, but at least they’re wearing masks. Visitors are asked to follow all such coronavirus prevention measures when the ...

Blair, Nebraska, Oct. 25, 2017 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Great Plains Communications, the largest independent communications provider in the state of Nebraska, has completed a seven-mile fiber optic cable ...

Ashfall Unearthed is a music special inspired by Nebraska's Ashfall Fossil Bed. Ashfall Unearthed is a half-hour music special inspired by Nebraska's Ashfall Fossil Beds featuring the Nebraska Chamber ...

Rhinoceroses running wild in Nebraska? Our Nebraska? It's got square mile upon square mile of fruited plains, amber waves of grain, oodles of cattle and hogs. But rhinos? Never in 10-million years. Or ...

ROYAL, Neb. (AP) — The new Dickinson Fossil Heritage Center is scheduled to open June 16 at Ashfall Fossil Beds State Historical Park near Royal in northeast Nebraska. The center will feature ...