How my daughters, 7 and 10, achieved ‘fossil finder’ status in Badlands National Park

Erica Pearson | (TNS) The Minnesota Star Tribune

All at once, we noticed the teeth — a whole row of them, big, gray and pointed.

During several days of hiking at Badlands National Park, our girls had been determined to spot a fossil, stopping to scan the ground constantly.

They were looking for any differences in texture, trying to spot smooth bones as we walked along an outcropping of the park’s striking rock formations. The wind and rain erode the rocks of the Badlands at a rate of about 1 inch per year...