In fact, dramatic photos of the Badlands had been circulating prior to the initial dedication of the 50,000-acre national monument in 1939. By the time the park was expanded to its current size ...

Badlands National Park is a vast wilderness of jagged buttes, spires and pinnacles, mixed-grass prairies, and the world’s richest trove of fossils from the Oligocene epoch, estimated at 23 to 35 ...

Thrilled at this brief sighting, Joe spent the next three days in South Dakota's Badlands National Park trying for another. 'Sometimes I spent more than six hours searching for it, only to get just a ...

Nowhere on Earth is as rich in quantity and quality of the prehistoric creatures' remains as the Badlands' arid Dinosaur Provincial Park, a UNESCO World Heritage site where digs are still under way.

Yupa Phillips took this photo at the Badlands State Park in South Dakota.