Calder said the Buc-ee's could be 74,000 square feet, almost as large as the chain's - and world's - largest in Luling, Texas ...

The large, extinct creatures roamed the Twin Cities area more than 10,000 years ago and could grow to more than 200 pounds ...

Joining 46 other states, Minnesota has officially chosen a state fossil—the giant beaver known as Castoroides ohioensis. With ...

Milk, blueberry muffins, honeycrisp apples, ice hockey, L’etoile du Nord and “Hail! Minnesota.” Each is among 20 state ...

Giant beavers the size of black bears once roamed the lakes and wetlands of North America. Fortunately for cottage-goers, these mega-rodents died out at the end of the last ice age.

The giant beaver died out about about 10,000 years ago, along with woolly mammoths, mastodons and giant sloths, at the end of the Ice Age, ...

The giant beaver’s incisors could grow to be over 20 centimeters long! But they didn’t have the chisel-like tips that modern beavers have. With their shorter, sharper teeth, ...

Giant beavers the size of black bears once roamed the lakes and wetlands of North America. Fortunately for cottage-goers, these mega-rodents died out at the end of the last ice age.

The beaver beat out nine candidates and will go on to face the legislative process to become the state fossil. More than 11,000 people voted, and 25% of them voted for the giant beaver. (credit ...

Castoroides ohioensis, commonly known as the giant beaver, is an extinct, bear-sized animal that roamed North America alongside woolly mammoths and relatives of the saber tooth cat.

No other studies have used stable isotopes to figure out the giant beaver’s diet. Giant beaver skull. Florida Museum of Natural History. We studied fossil bones from giant beavers that lived in the ...