A write-in campaign for a prehistoric giant beaver that weighed more than 200 pounds has secured it a spot on a list of possible candidates for state fossil. The write-in campaign has been so ...

Jul. 9—If you click on the list of state fossils kept by the folks at Fossilera.com, you'll find this posted on the Minnesota entry: "No state fossil, lame...." The folks at the Science Museum of ...

From the common loon to the Honeycrisp apple, Minnesota is represented by more than a dozen state symbols. Now we can finally add a "state fossil" to the list. The Science Museum of Minnesota ...

ST PAUL, Minn. — With two months left until the mid-term elections, there's another effort to gauge the will of the people at the Science Museum of Minnesota. "Right here in the lobby we have a ...

Sometime between the debate over election administration and a bill to create an entirely new state agency in Minnesota, the giant beaver teeth were carefully brought up to the testifier's table.

Meet the evolutionary hipster that beat Portland to weirdness by 30 million years. We’ve just found North America’s oldest beaver fossils. They’re rewriting everything we thought about these ...

It's too bad the Explore Minnesota tourist agency wasn't operating a few million years ago. Just think of the attractions it could have promoted: "See the crocodiles — that's right, real crocs, not ...

One of the contenders for Minnesota's state fossil is Terminonaris robusta, a large long-snouted crocodile relative, which was found on the Iron Range. This extinct cousin to the modern crocodile ...