(Watermark)

Marmarth Research Foundation: In the Hell Creek Formation of North Dakota

Marmarth Research Foundation: In the Hell Creek formation of North Dakota

Prenocephale skull , 2006
Hell Creek Formation

Prenocephale skull

Hell Creek badlands

Hell Creek badlands

2006

MRF provided good supervision and ran a tight ship, but yet always conveyed a sense of joyful excitement about paleontology and its scientific potential.

Tom Hollocher
Retired Biochemist

Read more testimonials...

Out and About

From the field

Some shade in the badlands...
Shade trees are a welcome site in the rugged badlands.
Rattle snake
A rattle snake in a dried up pond. While rattle snakes are poisonous, they rarely bite humans that are not messing with them and instead rattle their tail to warm humans not to come any closer.
Rattlesnake!!
Listen for the rattle!! Rattlesnakes are a fairly common site in the badlands.
A large channel
Tyler stands next to a very large channel fill deposit found near the Turtle Graveyard locality.
Horny lizard
Horny lizards are common in the badlands.
Badland exposures
These low lying badland exposures proved to be quite fruitful.
Sunrise
A beautiful sunrise over Marmarth, which is hidden by the trees found in the Little Missouri River's floodplain.
Big blue sky
Tyler prospects beneath the big blue sky.
Sunrise
A beautiful sunrise over the badlands.
Beautiful badlands
The rugged badlands make for some great photography.
Badlands beneath the blue sky
The badlands and blue sky seem to stretch endlessly off into the distance.
Hognose snake
Hognose snakes are a very rare sighting in the North Dakota badlands. These snakes have a variety of defense mechanisms to deter predators including inflating their necks and rolling over and playing dead.
Falcon
Volunteers stumbled across this falcon on their way to the Turtle Ridge locality.
Close-up of a rattle snake's head
Rattle snakes have beautiful scale patterns on their bodies.
T-rex
A life size metal cutout of a T-rex greets you as you drive into town.
Bull snake
A beautiful bull snake warming himself in the morning sunlight.
Baby bird
This baby bird's nest was in a flat rocky basin in the middle of the badlands.