HILL CITY, S.D. – The Black Hills Institute of Geological Research opened in Rapid City in 1974 and moved to Hill City in 1978. Institute president and CEO Peter Larson
Measuring 12.8 feet (3.9 m) high and 38.1 feet (11.6 m) long, the T. Rex skeleton that was sold at an auction in Switzerland yesterday is made up of 293 bones from three different dinosaurs.
HULETT, Wyo. Crouching over a snow-dusted quarry that moonlights as a fossil hunting ground, Peter Larson pointed to a weathered 4-inch slab peeking out from a blanket of white. A commonplace rock to the untrained eye, but an obvious dinosaur bone to Larson.