RAPID CITY, S.D. (KOTA) - In 2016, a geology intern at Badlands National Park spotted a light gray object on the rocks that caught her attention. When she took a closer look, the intern realized ...

Badlands National Park is a vast wilderness of jagged buttes, spires and pinnacles, mixed-grass prairies, and the world’s richest trove of fossils from the Oligocene epoch, estimated at 23 to 35 ...

In fact, the White River Badlands were proclaimed a national monument in 1939 and elevated to a national park in 1978, mainly to protect the fossil beds from nonscientific collectors. Researchers ...

slightly off-putting vibe of Badlands National Park, the stretch of dramatic canyons and pillars in South Dakota is undeniably beautiful. One of the richest deposits of mammal fossil beds in the ...

The Ultimate Badlands National Park Hiking Guide will help you choose which trail to explore. Weather you choose to see the fossil beds, sunrises or wildlife like prairie dogs, a black footed ferret, ...

The park also features fossils ... and Painted Desert vistas and colorful badlands. This is my Mother's park story. Here she is at age 90 having just visited Petrified Forest NP. Mother loved all the ...