Digging the Badlands. (cover story)

Relates the author's experiences on joining the South Dakota School of Mines. How technology professor Phil Bjork on an archaeological expedition to excavate fossils in the Badlands National Park in South Dakota; Consideration of Bjork as one of those who helped excavate the first Tyrannosaurus rex skeleton in South Dakota; Reaction of the author's children to the excavations; Fossil creatures in the Badlands.