For a number of summers, Southwestern Adventist University has been conducting a dinosaur excavation research project in the Lance Formation of eastern Wyoming.

We are quarrying in an extremely rich bone bed finding the remains of a number of upper Cretaceous dinosaurs. The project provides exciting experience in the quarrying techniques and the joy of discovery for everyone that participates.

The primary research thrust is to locate and carefully record the exact location of each bone that is found then to excavate and stablize each for transport to the lab for additional preservation. A number of exciting techniques that have not been utilized before or in combination make this project a state-of-the-art research effort. We use high precision GPS equipment to determine the location of each bone, GIS software to analyze and produce an integrated picture, and a web-based catalog so that the results may be available for researchers world-wide.

The Dinosaur Project optionally offers college credit hours or continuing education units to students and teachers. College and high school students may earn four semester hours of college credit by registering for the corresponding class. Teachers may earn four units of CEU's.

We welcome all interested participants: those with paleontology experience; those without any excavation experience; students; teachers; all humans!

Previous Expeditions, 1997 — 2009

 brief year-by-year summary 

 Dinosaur Project photo gallery 

 2009 notes from the field 

 come and visit the bones! 

site designed and built by Justin Woods and Lawrence Turner, 2003