The North Dakota Geological Survey wraps up its latest public dinosaur digs this week.
And they continue to be very popular.
"Our registration is at the very beginning of February," said paleontologist Jeff Person. "One person for one day is one ticket. And we have about 600 tickets available for the summer, and they sell out usually in less than 10 minutes."
Person said the digs this year were south of Bismarck, the Pembina Gorge and the Dickinson area.
"At the dig site we have just south of Bismarck-Mandan, we found two really nice T-Rex teeth," Person said. "They were found by two members of the public. And that's always excuting to find."
This year’s dig was the 27th.
"We're getting a lot of fossils out of the ground, and educating the public about it," Person said. "And I think members of the public are having a good time coming out with us."
Person saide he hasn’t started planning for next year’s digs – but he said they will likely be back at some of these same sites, because they have been productive.
