The main research project that was conducted at the museum was the preparation of fossil bison bones from a mass death site near White River in south-central South Dakota. Undergraduate students reconstructed and studied the bones and entered information on them in a computer database.
Visitors can see several of the bones on display and photographs of the excavation site.
Press here for more information about the bison excavation and research or contact Professor Timothy H. Heaton in the USD Department of Earth Sciences.