Our team participates in academic research that helps to fuel the content and services we provide. This research spans a number of timezones and topics in Earth's history and involves invertebrate and vertebrate fossil material. Many of our current projects concern the Hell Creek formation and the last dinosaurs to live on our planet.

It is our hope that as we progress in our mission that we can create opportunities to share the thrill of hunting for fossils with Interested members of the armed services community and their families.

As part of our ongoing mission, High Plains Paleontology seeks to connect students and other interested parties to real dinosaur research through outreach and educational initiatives.  As part of our recent renewal operation, we are dedicating a conserted effort toward providing educational services, using not only our own research but also by staying informed about the daily advances in the field of paleontology. 

Critical to both our research and educational efforts, digitizing of fossil finds is a priority that allows us to study the ancient past more effectively while providing us the tools to better educate the public and our stakeholders. We hope to accomplish much of our digitization through the use of Micro CT scanning techniques. CT data is also a strong asset in our obligation to segway scientifically valuable specimens into the public trust.