Marmarth News

Slowly...but surely the pieces are being revealed. The North Dakota Heritage Center has been called the "Hub of History." Reporter Ashley McMillan tells us about another display at the center that is gaining ...

“We've got a couple people working on removing the rock from the fossilized skin”

By ELOSIE OGDEN, Regional Editor, eogden@minotdailynews.com Fossil digs BISMARCK - " Slots are still available for people to take part in fossil digs offered through the North Dakota Geological Survey ... via Minot Daily News

“There is only a handful of specimens anywhere in the world that have this kind of preservation.”

Historians are beginning the tedious process of uncovering a rare dinosaur find. via KXMC-TV Minot

Nothing brings home the reality of our prehistoric past like standing before the massive fossil of a long-extinct dinosaur. via BismarckTribune

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“To have something that was found here in North Dakota come back here to the Heritage Center is so great to have happen”

Dakota the duckbilled dinosaur is coming home. The 65-million-year-old fossilized hadrosaur found in North Dakota's Badlands a decade ago has been studied by paleontologists, had its innards scanned by NASA and ... via Oakland Press

“To have something that was found here in North Dakota come back here to the Heritage Center is so great to have happen”

Dakota the duckbilled dinosaur is coming home. The 65-million-year-old fossilized hadrosaur found in North Dakota's Badlands a decade ago has been studied by paleontologists, had its innards scanned by NASA and ... via El Paso Times

“There are skin impressions on most of the remains - body, tail and arm. That's very unusual”

A fossilized duckbilled dinosaur or hadrosaur, considered very rare because the fossil is so complete and has skin impressions, soon will have a new home in the North Dakota Heritage Center in Bismarck. via Minot Daily News

North Dakota woman says she's owed $350,000 for overtime BISMARCK, N.D. A North Dakota who worked as a dispatcher for an oil field equipment and transportation company says she's owed money for more than 6,000 ... via KXMB News

The State Historical Society is handing out grants. It`s approved more than $270,000 in cultural heritage grants for 44 projects from Marmarth to Ellendale. via KMOT-TV Minot

Donald Heck, of Bismarck, is charged in federal court with two counts of making and passing counterfeit bills. via Minot Daily News

A North Dakota woman is suing an Oklahoma-based oil field equipment and transportation company that also serves Kansas and four other states. via KSHB-TV Kansas City

The Highway Patrol says a man has died in a pickup rollover on a slippery road west of Rhame. via KMOT-TV Minot

“The skin hadn't collapsed in around the bone, and at that point I knew that we had a 3-D dinosaur mummy. I was absolutely thrilled.”

The Dakota dinosaur story that is tearing up the newswires is not, in fact, about the Dakota dinosaur museum. via Tim Worstall

“There is depth and structure to the skin. The level of detail expressed in the skin is just breathtaking. "This is not a skin impression. This is fossilized skin”

Almost like touching a real dino PHILLIP MANNING/NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY/THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Scientists from the University of Manchester in Great Britain, and excavation team members from the Marmarth ... via The Toronto Star

“The skin hadn't collapsed in around the bone, and at that point I knew that we had a 3-D dinosaur mummy. I was absolutely thrilled.”

The world of 65 million years ago is filled with mystery, especially because scientists have little to go on but bones. via ABC News

“I figured the excavation would take two or three weeks, I'd have a hadrosaur tail, it would make a nice museum piece, but scientifically it would not be that impressive.”

AP PHOTO/TYLER LYSON, NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY This undated handout photo provided by the National Geographic Society shows the scale of the fossilized skin of a duckbilled hadrosaur found in 1999 in North ... via The Ledger

“It's a dinosaur that was turned into stone, essentially”

By CHRISTOPHER LEE A high school student hunting fossils in the badlands of his native North Dakota discovered an extremely rare mummified dinosaur that includes not just bones but also seldom seen fossilized ... via Star-telegram.com

A dinosaur fossil discovered in North Dakota is helping scientists find answers to questions that are millions of years old. via KMOT-TV Minot

“To have the three-dimensional shape of the dinosaur, to have all of that together, is just extremely rare.”

A 67-million-year-old dinosaur discovered by a high school sophomore in North Dakota has proven to be one of the most complete dinosaur mummies ever discovered. via USA Today