“It’s easy to get me excited about anything related to fossils,” says Amy Atwater. That’s a pretty good quality to have when you’re the director of paleontology at Dinosaur Ridge in Morrison – and ...

Even for people of advanced years (like me), the past can seem slippery and far away. For the very young — who have so little past to reckon with — it’s an even more difficult thing to grasp. Last ...

In 1971, paleontologists stumbled upon the remains of an 80-million-year-old battle in the sandstones of Mongolia’s Gobi Desert. Dubbed the “Fighting Dinosaurs,” the fossilized scene shows a ...

There has only been one dinosaur fossil found in Washington state, and it’s Kelly Milner Halls’ mission to tell you all about it. In her latest book, “A Dinosaur for Washington,” Halls takes readers ...

SPOKANE, Wash. — "A Dinosaur For Washington" is a new book about an 66-million-year-old mystery discovered on the shores of Sucia Island in the San Juans. Spokane's Kelly Milner-Halls wrote "The True ...

For generations raised on dinosaur toys, “Jurassic Park” films and characters like Barney, it’s hard to imagine a world where dinos and their fossils didn’t exist — or, more accurately, weren’t ...

“Death at the Mall: New and Selected Poems” by Gene Twaronite. Kelsay Books. 111 pages. $23. “Watch through the window /,” writes former Library Poet in Residence Gene Twaronite, “to write of things ...

Books about what and who you love are the best books, especially for little readers who are learning that they are unique and special and so are their interests. Get these from your favorite local ...

For generations raised on dinosaur toys, “Jurassic Park” films and characters like Barney, it's hard to imagine a world where dinos and their fossils didn't exist — or, more accurately, weren't ...