Kansas fossil hunter Alan Detrich wants to donate a smaller, though more complete, X-fish to the state of Kansas for display in the Statehouse in Topeka. But the donation would come at a price ...

of the fossil remains of a huge sea monster. A settler in the strip just across the State line found a bone projecting from-the sand of the Arkansas River bank. View Full Article in Timesmachine ...

Knee-deep as ever in those artifacts, Detrich, a retired oil investor and antique businessman, has been a fossil hunter for about 28 years. For 12, he’s tried to get the state of Kansas to ...

Anthony Hensley, D-Topeka, said at the time. Kansas lawmakers in 2014 named the Pteranodon as the state flying fossil and the Tylosaurus as the state marine fossil. Fossils have been found in ...