A rare dinosaur fossil discovery in Montana has been in Raleigh, North Carolina, for the past two decades.
Paleontologists from the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences visited Jordan to work with students.
They have been teaching eighth graders about microfossils for two years in North Carolina and are now taking that on the road.
Eighth graders in Jordan were the first for the national expansion of the project on Tuesday and Wednesday.
Garfield County science students looked for microfossils from the Hell Creek formation.
“The vertebrae were very hard to tell, but then like if you found a tooth fossil, it’s pretty easy,” said Aubrey Smith, a Jordan eighth grader.
“The older the dinosaur is, the more interesting the fossil is,” said Hatley Weeding, who is also in the eighth grade.
The program is part of the museum’s Cretaceous Creatures project .
The soil has been shipped across the country from Garfield County to where students in North Carolina have already found 4,000 microfossils.