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On September 10, 1804, four members of the Lewis and Clark Expedition recorded in their journals a fossil discovery along the banks of the Missouri River in what is now Gregory County in south-central South Dakota. The find was a 45-foot-long (14 m) articulated vertebral column, ribs, and teeth at the top of a high ridge.
The Mammoth Site is a museum and paleontological site near Hot Springs, South Dakota, in the Black Hills. It is an active paleontological excavation site at which research and excavations are continuing. The facility encloses a prehistoric sinkhole that formed and was slowly filled with sediments during the Pleistocene era.
This list of museums in South Dakota encompasses museums defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.
According to the South Dakota State Historical Society's Archaeological Research Center, over 26,000 archaeological sites have been recorded in the U.S. state of South Dakota. [ 1 ] This list is broken down by county and encompasses sites across all of what is now South Dakota.
The largest spaceflight museum in the world showcases artifacts including the Saturn V moon rocket and the Apollo 16 command module. The center also hosts Space Camp and Space Academy for budding ...
At the time of its NRHP nomination, Lemmon Petrified Wood Park claimed to be the largest petrified wood park in the world. [2] It takes up one 3-acre (1.2 ha) block in the center of downtown Lemmon, South Dakota, and is bounded by Main Avenue (U.S. 12) to the west, 5th Street East to the north, 1st Avenue East to the east, and 6th Avenue East to the south.
A team of paleontologists at a Wyoming dig led by The Children's Museum have found an almost fully intact Allosaurus snout. The snout belongs to the same predator the museum's team found in 2020 .
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