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. Now extinct, the ...

Sometime between the debate over election administration and a bill to create an entirely new state agency in Minnesota, the giant beaver teeth were carefully brought up to the testifier's table.

From left to right: Paleontologist Alex Hastings holds up a fossil of a giant beaver's head on Sunday at Bad Weather Brewing in St. Paul.

Fossilized remains of the giant beaver have been discovered in Minneapolis and Saint Paul, as well as in southern Minnesota. Science Museum of Minnesota It’s official: Minnesota’s state fossil is the ...

Out of all the stars in the sky, out of all the bones beneath our feet, Minnesota lawmakers chose only the best. Minnesota deserves the best, which is why choosing state symbols has always been a ...

MINNEAPOLIS (WCCO) --On the arrival of National Fossil Day, the giant beaver is the winning candidate to become Minnesota's official state fossil. The beaver beat out nine candidates and will go on to ...

A bill before lawmakers would name the Castoroides Ohioensis, also known as the giant beaver, as Minnesota’s official state ...