Today Digger Rex is digging for dinos in the Bighorn Basin of northern Wyoming. It’s not the most scenic stretch of the United States. Rocky, sandy, and dotted with small unspectacular shrubs, the Bighorn Basin is a 100 mile semi-arid patch in the middle of nowhere. For the casual traveller, it probably isn’t an ideal place to stop and explore.

But for a palaeontologist? Well, let’s just say that for a paleaontologist the Bighorn Basin in northern Wyoming is like Disneyland, Universal Studios and Six Flags all rolled into one! So many fossils have been discovered in the Bighorn Basin that it’s come to be known by palaeontologists as the “Jurassic Mile”!