CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. (KFVS) - Southeast Missouri State University students unearth several dinosaur fossils, including a Tyrannosaurus rex bone, during their field experience in the Montana Badlands this summer.

The expedition to Jordan, Montana, included 14 students and two faculty members.

The students earned course credit while getting hands-on experience in discovery, excavation, and fossil preparation.

“Students actually get to be paleontologists for a week,” Instructor Pam Mills said. “They’re taught proper field techniques—how to prospect, identify fossils, use GPS coordinates, excavate, tag and jacket fossils for travel. The experience for the students is priceless.”

Mills has 12 years of experience teaching geoscience at SEMO. She has been leading students on trips to the badla

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