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Ransom Canyon season 2: key information

– Renewed in June
– Production rumored to start in September
– No release date yet
– Main cast expected to return
– No official trailer released

Saddle up, because Ransom Canyon season 2 is officially on the way.

Based on the book series by Jodi Thomas, Ransom Canyon follows the lives of three ranching dynasties as they protect the people they hold most dear to them against the people who want to take them down. Throw in small town drama, loss and romance and you’ve got yourself an incredibly bingeable show.

In contention to become one of the best Netflix shows on the streaming platform, the Western series encourages viewers to fall for a little slice of Texas. And as love, land and legacy unfolded in the first ten episodes, it’s no surprise the show isn’t done yet, especially after such an open-ended finale.

Ransom Canyon season 2: is there a release date?

There’s no Ransom Canyon season 2 release date, but we at least know it is on the way. In a post by Tudum in June, it was declared that April Blair’s modern Western had officially been renewed.

And the news was further confirmed by an Instagram post (featured above) from Josh Duhamel, saying “Yee-haw!”

We also know, thanks to What’s On Netflix, that there’s plans to start filming in mid-to-late September with a four-month shoot ending in around January.

With this in mind, I’d predict the Ransom Canyon season 2 release date to be late 2026/early 2027.

Ransom Canyon season 2: has a trailer been released?

Ransom Canyon season 2 hasn’t yet begun production (Image credit: Netflix)

With Ransom Canyon season 2 not yet in production, it seems unlikely that we’ll have a trailer to share with you anytime soon.

The season 1 trailer came out less than a month before the show dropped on Netflix, so I imagine we won’t receive a trailer until at least late 2026. But, I’ll be sure to drop it here once it lands.

Ransom Canyon season 2: predicted cast

The main cast of Ransom Canyon are expected to return (Image credit: Netflix)

Aside from Staten and Quinn already confirmed to return, I’d predict the following Ransom Canyon season 2 cast to also be back:

Josh Duhamel as Staten Kirkland
Minka Kelly as Quinn O’Grady
Eoin Macken as Davis Collins
Lizzy Greene as Lauren Brigman
Garrett Wareing as Lucas Russell
Marianly Tejada as Ellie Estevez
Jack Schumacher as Yancy Grey
Andrew Liner as Reid Collins
Philip Winchester as Dan Brigman
Justin Johnson Cortez as Kai Flores
Tatanka Means as Jake Longbow
Jaren K Robledo as Jack Yellowbird
Casey W Johnson as Kit Russell
Jennifer Ens as Ashley
Brett Cullen as Senator Sam Kirkland
Kate Burton as Katherine Bullock
Sarah Minnich as Margaret Brigman

We said goodbye to Cap in season 1 (Image credit: Netflix)

There is one character that won’t be returning to Ransom Canyon season 2 and that’s Cap Fuller (James Brolin) who passed away in the season finale.

And while we don’t have confirmation on the other main characters returning, Cap was the only death of season 1. So, I’d hope, the rest will.

Lucas (Garrett Wareing) also posted a celebratory message on Instagram to mark the show’s season 2 renewal saying: “Ransom Canyon is the greatest thing I’ve gotten the fortunate chance to experience in this life and to get to return to my favorite place with some of my favorite people now means that much more.”

And so it seems pretty likely that he’ll be back along with everyone else.

Ransom Canyon season 2: story synopsis and rumors

Yancy was left to reevaluate his choice in season 1 (Image credit: Netflix)

Full spoilers for Ransom Canyon season 1.

As an excellent pick for fans of Yellowstone and Virgin River, Ransom Canyon carved itself out as the middle ground between the two combining fierce ranch protection, family dynasties, grief and a “will they, won’t they?” love story.

And as the small-town drama crescendoed into an epic conclusion, there were lots of unanswered questions. Which, if you’ve read the books, you may already know the answers. But, we’re not trying to spoil it for anyone.

The biggest romance of Ransom Canyon is between its two titular characters, Quinn and Staten. And, after the loss of his wife, Amala, and son, Randall, Staten wasn’t in any place to move on as season 1 started out.

Especially considering the mystery surrounding Randall’s death, which in the season 1 finale, concluded in Sheriff Brigman’s estranged wife, Margaret’s arrest. A real small town secret.

But, Staten and Quinn find a way, after years of not. And, despite Davis’s best efforts to get in said way at the final moment, all it seemingly took was a tornado for the pair to realize it was time to admit their true feelings.

The season 1 finale though quickly gave the pair their first challenge as a couple – Quinn moving to New York. After being offered a position as pianist at the New York Philharmonic Orchestra, Quinn gave Ellie the role of keeping her dance hall alive while she planned to head to the Big Apple to pay off her debt. But, will she really go? And what does that mean for ‘Squinn’ in season 2.

A Ransom Canyon love triangle (Image credit: Netflix)

Staten and Quinn’s tale isn’t the only romance to flourish in Ransom Canyon though. There’s Lauren, Reid and Lucas’s love triangle and surprising friendship that ultimately left Reid encouraging Lucas to pursue Lauren, in spite of his own feelings.

Plus, Yancy and Ellie’s immediate connection was almost sullied by the deal he made with Davis to get parole from prison. To plan of which was to persuade Cap Fuller, who just happened to also be his grandad, to sell his ranch. But, the beauty of Ransom Canyon and of Ellie sees Yancy pursuing a different path.

And that path became even clearer when Cap passed away from a heart attack and left the entire ranch to Yancy, who subsequently decided not to sell it and instead asked Ellie to marry him. And that all seemed tied up with a lovely bow, until a woman arrived claiming to be his wife already.

So, for the residents of Ransom Canyon, there’s a lot more romance to explore and secrets left to unravel. Especially considering Davis and Staten’s father Sam haven’t given up on their pipeline deal of taking over the ranches just yet… Plenty more plotting for season 2 then.

Will there be more seasons of Ransom Canyon?

Season 3 and beyond? There’s no news yet (Image credit: Netflix)

When it comes to Ransom Canyon returning for more seasons, there’s no official news yet. But, considering Jodi Thomas’s book series has nine books in it, there’s plenty of material ripe and ready to transform into new episodes for this Netflix hit.

With season 2’s renewal in June though, I suspect there won’t be any news about a season 3 until later down the line. It took a few months after the season 1 finale to get the season 2 renewal, so I imagine it won’t be until late 2026/early 2027 for more news.

For more Netflix-based coverage, read our guides to Nobody Wants This season 2, Stranger Things season 5, The Four Seasons season 2, and One Piece season 2.

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About 500 million years ago, the Grand Canyon was a great sea, and among the creatures it harbored was a newly discovered type of penis worm, armed with many rings of teeth.

Penis worms are marine creatures with a distinctly phallic appearance. There are more than 20 known species living across the world’s oceans today, as well as a number of extinct ones, like this new discovery. The researcher who made the find was searching for fossils in the Grand Canyon and named the species Kraytdraco spectatus in honor of the huge burrowing krayt dragons that appear in the Star Wars universe. Details of the discovery were published in the journal Science Advances.

The authors believe that the worm fed using a retractible throat that could be pushed outward, inside out, before being drawn in on itself—like the finger of a glove being inverted. Lining this throat were rings and rings of teeth.

Courtesy of Rhydian Evans

Trying to imagine how the ancient worm might have fed, the researchers hypothesize that along this proboscis it combined strong, sharp teeth with more delicate feathered ones for a two-stage eating process. The former could have been used to pick up food such as algae and microorganisms dispersed in the sand where the worm would have lived, the latter to filter this food out of the substrate and chew it. But having only a fossil to look at, and not being able to see the worm at work, this remains only a hypothesis.

An adult specimen would have measured about 15 to 20 centimeters long. This is much larger than the species of penis worm that survive today, which have undergone miniaturization over the millennia and now do not exceed 2 to 3 millimeters.

Although the phallic worm monopolized scientists’ attention with its teeth, fossils of other creatures were also found in the same expedition. They’re estimated to date from before the beginning of the Cambrian period, roughly 500 million years ago, considered by experts to be the dawn of complex animal life. These other creatures, early types of shrimp and mollusks, are valuable because they suggest what the world’s first predators looked like.