Ressurecting the past one grain at a time...
I knew that I wanted to be a paleontologist since I was just six years old. I’d dig in the backyard sandbox, pretending to excavate T. rexes and brontosaurs til the sun went down and my mom would yell at me to come in. I’d have epic battles with Godzilla and a hoard of mighty dinosaurs in massive Lincoln Log and Lego cities constructed with care and imagination on my bedroom floor. I’d drag my family to every natural history museum I could, staring at the fossil displays in wonder and awe. I tried to get them to take me fossil collecting, but there just were not many public fossil sites to dig back in those days. So, I spent most of my childhood in the sandbox dreaming of someday chasing the great prehistoric beasts.
Even though I’m now pushing 50, and I’ve been digging dinosaurs professionally for over 20 years, I’m still that same wide-eyed kid looking to play in the sandbox. It’s just now the sand box is a whole lot bigger and the dinosaurs are no longer just plastic. We built this company with those young, dino-crazed kids in mind.
PaleoAdventures is one part science, one part education and one part fun. We focus our educational mission through tours and fieldwork, collecting specimens and their contextual data, for museums, other educators, and private collectors. Our clients are primarily families with young kids, interested in paleontology as a potential career choice and teachers who want to share the natural world with their students. We work with ranchers and like-minded scientists who know that fossils are meant to be collected and handled, not left to waste away in the badlands or gathering dust in a box at the bottom of a museum basement. We are on the ground floor, getting our hands dirty and loving every minute of it. We support anyone who believes that the study of paleontology is not just for academics with PHD’s, but for all caring parties who want to play a positive part. Our goal is to not only help answer the mysteries of the dinosaurs world, but also, and more importantly, to encourage and inspire the next generation of future paleontologists.
Offering tours of private dinosaur dig sites in the badlands of South Dakota! visit 
