Black Hills, South Dakota

 

 

 

 

 

 

Souvenir postcards from the Black Hills Petrified Forest, northwest of Rapid City, SD, off I-90. The fossil trees are approximately 120,000 years old (Middle Cretaceous).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Tyrannosaurus rex specimen nicknamed “Stan” (below) — at the Black Hills Institute of Geological Research, Hill City, SD.