Digging Deep

From the ground, to the plaster jacket, to the long long truck ride home (hope the bones survive as well as they have for the past 65 million years!), to the prep table for work-down, and so begins the meticulous preparation and stabilization process to make these specimens available to you!

This is a large mostly intact Sacrum from a Hadrosaurus. We found this beauty on the very last day of our dig season this past fall (year 2025). Ty was squaring up the last bit of wall and of course hit the beginning of what we would discover to be this sacrum. Needless to say, we were not done by 5!

We don’t leave bones exposed once discovered as they can weather and be destroyed in a single storm. The way the soil is out in the Hell Creek can make for immense erosion and ground movement in single large storms or over the course of multiple events over the season. By the time we arrive the following season the bone could be completely weathered away, washed down the hill, or in several hundred pieces and near impossible to reassemble.

We do our best to preserve these fossils and make them available to all those that love dinosaurs! If you’ve found us and read this far, you likely share the same love of fossils and rocks that we do! Thank you for your interest, we hope you find some specimens that intrigue you and we thank you for helping us dig our dreams!

(No restoration performed in any pictures, just removed from jacket and prepared out of the matrix)

--UDD Team