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Bone-crushing dogs reveal new secrets at Ashfall Fossil Beds

August 28, 2026

Science & Technology

Joel Nielsen (left), University of Nebraska State Museum exhibit specialist, tips a display in the museum's first-floor Photo Ark exhibit while Zach Schroeder, general manager at Paul Davis Restoration, slides dense foam underneath to help dry damp carpet.

Restoration crew

July 31, 2026

Morrill Hall closed July 28 following overnight storms

July 28, 2026

Bronze woolly mammoth statue with front entrance of Morrill Hall in background

Public invited to ‘Eight-Legged Encounters’ at Morrill Hall

July 7, 2026

Science & Technology

Ashley Poust, Voorhies Endowed Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology for the University of Nebraska State Museum, stands in the collections with lower jaws of Teleoceras from Ashfall Fossil Beds. Poust is part of an international team that identified Jian changmaensis, a newly described feathered dinosaur from China’s Changma Basin.

Poust helps identify new species of feathered dinosaur

June 18, 2026

Science & Technology

Ashley Poust, Voorhies Endowed Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology for the University of Nebraska State Museum, uses a Keyence VHX-7000 microscope in his Nebraska Hall lab to examine a histological slide of the fossil bone tissue of a theropod dinosaur.

NU State Museum researcher helps identify new feathered dinosaur species

June 18, 2026

Science & Technology

A rendering of a renovated Elephant Hall at the University of Nebraska State Museum-Morrill Hall, with people observing mammoth and mastodon fossils.

Morrill Hall renovation will include major updates to Elephant Hall

April 24, 2026

Science & Technology

Employees from Stephens & Smith Construction pour wheelbarrows of cement around a 3D printed replica of an incomplete Menoceras arikarense fossil – a small, extinct rhinoceros found in Nebraska fossil beds. The replica was printed by Frontier Tech Lab at the Nebraska Innovation Studios and will be part of a new fossil dig in the redesigned Marx Science Discovery Center in Morrill Hall.

Frontier Tech Lab helps bring hands‑on fossil dig to Morrill Hall

April 15, 2026

Agriculture & Environment

Science & Technology

Society & Culture

Nebraska artist Gary Staab carves the face of a giant bison statue.

Bronze bison coming to Morrill Hall for March 14 celebration

March 4, 2026

Science & Technology

Ann Spilker, extended learning coordinator at the University of Nebraska State Museum, stands next to the Nebraska prairie display on the fourth floor of Morrill Hall. Talking about prairie roots with young campers made Spilker realize she wanted to be an educator.

Spilker plants seeds of discovery for museum campers

February 17, 2026

Agriculture & Environment

Students perform in the student dance project Dec. 10.

2025 a year of challenges, resilience

December 26, 2025

shley Poust, Curator- Vertebrate Paleontology for the University of Nebraska State Museum, stands behind a cast of the upper jaw of a Tyrannosaurus rex, one of the largest specimens known.

Poust's expertise helps confirm Nanotyrannus was distinct species from T. rex

December 8, 2025

Agriculture & Environment

Science & Technology