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Kallie Moore

  • Creatures like this trilobite once ruled the Treasure State, billions of years ago beneath the sea.
    Montana News
    What lived in ancient Montana?
    Austin Amestoy
    People have lived in Big Sky Country for a little more than 10,000 years. But living things creeped and crawled and swam around here for hundreds of millions of years before then. A Big Why listener wanted to know when life showed up in the place we now call Montana.
  • Daly Elementary third grader Kyla Browe shares her preferred Little Why question with MTPR reporter Austin Amestoy.
    Montana News
    Little kids, big questions — and dinosaurs!
    Austin Amestoy
    After a year of taking questions from our adult listeners across Montana, The Big Why team thought it would be fun to see what kids are curious about. They wanted to know 'why was the first dinosaur found in Montana?'