Eastern Wyoming Nature Center secures funding for fossil Xiphactinus fish, Moves one step closer to opening

NIOBRARA COUNTY - The Eastern Wyoming Nature Center has announced an exciting milestone in its mission to create a museum in Lusk, Wyoming: the successful fundraising effort to purchase a rare Xiphactinus fossil fish skeleton. This remarkable specimen—an iconic giant predator from the Late Cretaceous seaway—will become one of the center’s first major acquisitions and a highlight of its developing paleontology collection.