Andrew Rossi
Andrew Rossi is a features reporter for Cowboy State Daily based in northwest Wyoming. He covers everything from horrible weather and giant pumpkins to dinosaurs, astronomy, and the eccentricities of Yellowstone National Park.
 Previously, Rossi was the News Director for Big Horn Basin Media in Cody. He earned several awards from the Wyoming Association of Broadcasters, including multiple awards for Best News Reporter and Best News Talk Show.
 A native of Cleveland, Ohio, Rossi previously worked at the Wyoming Dinosaur Center in Thermopolis. He has collaborated with Disney/Pixar, the BBC, The Washington Post, the Wyoming Office of Tourism, and several other national and international media outlets. He is also a cofounder of The Cody Theatre Company in Cody.
Latest from Andrew Rossi
3,600-Foot-Tall Undersea Volcano Expected To Blow This Year, But Nobody’s Worried
Axial Seamount is a young, 30 million-year-old undersea volcano in the Pacific Ocean off the U.S. coast, and it’s expected to blow this year. While “fascinating” and spectacular, nobody’s worried about it.
Andrew RossiJanuary 20, 2025
Ancient Ice Forests In Beartooth Mountains Give Up 6,000-Year-Old Secrets
Researchers are revealing the secrets of 6,000-year-old pine forests, preserved in ice patches in the Beartooth Mountains. These ice forests are giving up ancient secrets about the past — and future — of the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem.
Andrew RossiJanuary 19, 2025
Wyoming Braces For Dangerous Windchills Up To -45, Can Cause Frostbite In Minutes
Wyomingites will wake up to some serious cold Monday with windchills hitting anywhere from minus 15 to minus 45 around the state. That’s not only bone-chilling, it’s dangerous, and can cause frostbite in minutes.
Andrew RossiJanuary 19, 2025
Cody Filmmaker A Producer For Documentary Premiering At Sundance Film Festival
A Cody, Wyoming, filmmaker is a coproducer for the documentary “Free Leonard Peltier," which will debut next week at the Sundance Film Festival. The film examines the case of the American Indian activist convicted of killing two FBI agents in 1975.
Andrew RossiJanuary 19, 2025
Yellowstone’s Beryl Springs Is Super-Hot, Ornery And Turns Stuff Blue
Beryl Spring, located between Mammoth Hot Springs and Madison Junction in Yellowstone National Park, was named for the stunning blue color of its boiling water. It’s also super-hot, ornery and turns the nearby boardwalk posts blue.
Andrew RossiJanuary 19, 2025
88-Foot-Long Bronze Of Wyoming’s Famous Dippy The Dinosaur Goes Up In London
Dippy the Diplodocus, an 88-foot-long Wyoming dinosaur, is world famous and billed as “the most colossal animal ever on Earth.” Now it’s been cast in bronze — in life size — for a new outdoor exhibit at the Natural History Museum of London.
Andrew RossiJanuary 19, 2025
More Funerals Include Casket Branding, The Most Cowboy Way To Say Goodbye
A growing trend in Western funerals is for family and loved ones to put hot cattle brands to wooden caskets. It’s the most cowboy way for ranching families and others in the West to say goodbye.
Andrew RossiJanuary 18, 2025
Speedy, Beloved 24-Year-Old Yellowstone Sanctuary Bison, Dies
Speedy the bison died Thursday after spending 24 years as one of the best-known and beloved bison in the Greater Yellowstone Region. She was an animal ambassador at the Yellowstone Wildlife Sanctuary in Red Lodge, Montana, since 2005.
Andrew RossiJanuary 17, 2025
Subzero Surge To Bring Snow Squalls, Black Ice And Dangerous Wind Chills
Between Friday and Tuesday, Wyomingites will experience the coldest temperatures of the winter season so far. Don Day says to expect dangerously low wind chills, black ice and wind-driven snow squalls.
Andrew RossiJanuary 16, 2025
Supreme Court Won't Hear Utah's Case To Get Control Of Federal Lands
The U.S. Supreme Court announced Monday it won't take up Utah's case to get control of federal lands in that state, a push Wyoming supported. Gov. Mark Gordon says he's "disappointed but not surprised."
Andrew RossiJanuary 13, 2025
Get Ready To Shiver — Cold Wave To Plunge Wyoming Below Zero This Week
A surge of polar air from Canada will move into Wyoming by the end of the week, plunging much of the state into below zero temperatures. It’s the start of what could be a prolonged period of serious cold.
Andrew RossiJanuary 13, 2025
That Time Bugs Bunny Tormented Elmer Fudd While Camping In Yellowstone
The 1941 cartoon "Wabbit Twouble" had Bugs Bunny antagonizing Elmer Fudd in Jellostone National Park, aka Yellowstone. The cartoon was a crucial step for the iconic characters while also providing one of the internet's favorite memes: Big Chungus.
Andrew RossiJanuary 12, 2025
Fossils Of 47 Million-Year-Old "Alien Plant" Raise More Questions Than Answers
Researchers have found nearly every plant part they need to trace the prehistoric history of a 47 million-year-old "alien plant" from Utah. That’s why it's baffling that it remains so elusive and unlike anything else ever found on the planet.
Andrew RossiJanuary 12, 2025
Perfect Weather Conditions Can Create Stunning Light Pillars Across Wyoming
Light pillars aren't rare or hard to see in Wyoming, but they require perfect weather conditions to create their stunning columns of color streaking into the night sky. It has to be freezing out and have hexagonal ice crystals to reflect the light.
Andrew RossiJanuary 12, 2025
North America's Earliest Dinosaur Is A 230-Million-Year-Old Chicken-Sized Wyomingite
Paleontologists released a new report last week showing that the earliest dinosaur ever discovered in North America is from Wyoming. It's a small, chicken-sized dino found in the Wind River Mountains.
Andrew RossiJanuary 11, 2025
If You Like 8:30 a.m. Sunrises In Winter, You'll Like Permanent Daylight Saving Time
If Congress passes the Sunshine Protection Act, which was introduced earlier this week, daylight saving time would be permanent. That means later sunrises and sunsets in Wyoming and no changing of the clock.
Andrew RossiJanuary 11, 2025
Moose Butt Wins Contest To Guess What Shattered A BMW Windshield Near Afton
A Cody auto glass company decided to have some fun by hosting a contest to guess what shattered the windshield of a BMW while driving near Afton, Wyoming. The winning guess? Moose butt at 9 mph.
Andrew RossiJanuary 10, 2025
Campbell County Uses Tacos To Explain Difference Between Winter Storm Watch And Warning
Campbell County is trying to help Wyomingites understand winter weather better by comparing the various alerts to tacos. It can be an appetizing and appropriate analogy — depending on the ingredients and how they come together.
Andrew RossiJanuary 10, 2025
C.J. Box Going On Book Tour For New Joe Pickett Novel, Which Drops In February
Wyoming author C.J. Box will travel across the country to promote “Battle Mountain,” the latest novel in his popular Joe Pickett series, which goes on sale Feb. 25. In it, Pickett spans Wyoming in search of missing elk hunters.
Andrew RossiJanuary 07, 2025
Driver Totals WYDOT Snowplow Blade By Plowing Into It
A driver who plowed into a WYDOT snowplow on U.S. Highway 14 near Dayton on Friday got minor injuries and a ticket from the Highway Patrol. The driver’s insurance company will get a call about the $26,000 it will cost to replace the destroyed blade.
Andrew RossiJanuary 06, 2025
2024 Will Go Down As The “Year Of The Explosion” At Yellowstone National Park
The spectacular explosion of Black Diamond Pool was the most dramatic event of 2024 in Yellowstone National Park. Elsewhere, it was a pretty average year with nearly 1,200 earthquakes, 300-foot eruptions of Steamboat Geyser and Abyss Pool getting hotter.
Andrew RossiJanuary 06, 2025