North Dakota Heritage Center & State Museum Visitor Guide
Meet our roaring Tyrannosaurus Rex, 35 feet in length.
Archelon was the largest prehistoric turtle - about the size and shape of a classic Volkswagen Beetle.
ADAPTATION GALLERY:
GEOLOGIC TIME
Start your chronological journey
through time with the Adaptation
Gallery. From monstrous sea creatures
living in primordial oceans to the rise
and extinction of dinosaurs, from
tropical swamplands with crocodiles to
the appearance of mastodons during
the ice age, this gallery covers the
fascinating story of evolving geology
and the earliest life in North Dakota.
Become immersed in the underwater
world of 80 million years ago, when
North Dakota was covered by an
ocean. Touch an interactive table
to explore a timeline of geological
changes in North Dakota from 600
million years ago to the present. View
life-size casts of a Tyrannosaurus rex
and a Triceratops. Discover what the
glaciers left behind.
Touch North Dakota's state fossil,
Teredo-bored petrified wood.View entire presentation