Prairie Fossil Museum

01/03/2022

Our museum was featured on Channel 8 news!

Knoxville businessman creates free Prairie Fossil Museum to share his discoveries from a decade of dinosaur hunting.

12/03/2021

Come and see the "Hall of Horns" at the Prairie Fossil Museum. We now have 12 Triceratops brow horns on display and another 3 in preparation. Call anytime for a visit time.... always free.

12/10/2020

Here is the newest addition to the fossil collection at the Prairie Fossil Museum. This is a 43 inch Femur from a Triceratops. It is still in it's field jacket , and I hope to prep it out this winter.

11/09/2020

We just finished the prep work on our seventh Triceratops brow horn. Now on display

09/02/2020

The bone structure that connects our skull to our cervical vertebrae is called the occipital condyle. In a Triceratops the structure is a ball and socket like a swivel trailer hitch. The ball is attached to the rear of their brain case, and the socket is a cup like structure on their first cervical vertebrae. Their entire brain case is over a foot long and has over 14 different openings for various nerve bundles.

At one of my favorite dig sites I uncovered a Triceratops occipital condyle with a portion of the brain case. I recently completed prepping this fossil and it is now on display at the Prairie Fossil Museum.

08/26/2020

Here are the latest additions to the Prairie Fossil Museum collection. So far this season I have been able to set a Paleo record, and discover and preserve three Triceratops horns in a row. One in late May and two in mid July. Can't wait to get back in the field and find more. They are out there!

02/26/2020

We've completed our new website with all the museum details in one easy to read page... Take a look!

https://prairiefossilmuseum.com/

02/18/2020