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Field trips are a fantastic way to get your child out of the house, promote engaged learning, and have serious fun! They also have a healthy share of benefits – children who attend field trips show higher exam scores and demonstrate improved behavior. Check out this blog for seven free or low cost homeschool field trip ideas.

Utah is one of the best states to live in if you or your child are interested in geology. You can find an abundance of common gemstones, geodes, and fossils in the Beehive State. Learn more about rockhounding in this fun guide.

The Butterfly Effect, or the notion that one small change could have a much larger impact for better or worse, is popularized in science fiction stories for it's interesting look at how human centrality yields consequences we cannot know the breadth or duration of.

The Junior Paleo Lab is a space designed to encourage guests to come and learn how to be a paleontologist and how to actually work on real fossils

Even though dinosaurs, along with most other reptilian animals, are most associated with tropical climates, tangled in greenery and living in a perpetual summer, there were some that withstood the windchill.

The weather outside is frightful, but there is one prehistoric animal that would have loved this ice and snow: the Woolly Mammoth.

Liz Anderson is the Collections Manager at the Mountain America Museum of Ancient Life, and she explains the process the Collections Team goes through to take care of thousands of specimens in the Museum.

In 2020, a new subspecies of Allosaurus was announced - Allosaurus jimmadseni. The first discovery of this new subspecies was found in 1990, but in 2002, Thanksgiving Point Paleontologist Rick Hunter discovered his own juvenile Allosaurus jimmadseni.