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Makoshika State Park

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Makoshika State Park ("ma-KO-sh(ih)kuh" from the Lakota Maco sica, meaning 'bad land' or 'land of bad spirits') is the largest of Montana's state parks at more than 11,000 acres (45 km²). [1]

13 relations: Badlands, Bob Harmon, Dawson County, Montana, Dinosaur, Fossil, Glendive, Montana, Hell Creek Formation, Jack Horner (paleontologist), Lakota people, List of Montana state parks, Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks, Thescelosaurus, Triceratops.

Badlands

Badlands are a type of dry terrain where softer sedimentary rocks and clay-rich soils have been extensively eroded by wind and water.

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Bob Harmon

Robert Green Harmon (October 15, 1887 – November 27, 1961) was a Major League Baseball pitcher.

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Dawson County, Montana

Dawson County is a county located in the U.S. state of Montana.

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Dinosaur

Dinosaurs are a diverse group of reptiles of the clade Dinosauria.

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Fossil

A fossil (from Classical Latin fossilis; literally, "obtained by digging") is any preserved remains, impression, or trace of any once-living thing from a past geological age.

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Glendive, Montana

Glendive is a city in and the county seat of Dawson County, Montana, United States, and home to Dawson Community College.

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Hell Creek Formation

The Hell Creek Formation is an intensively-studied division of mostly Upper Cretaceous and some lower Paleocene rocks in North America, named for exposures studied along Hell Creek, near Jordan, Montana.

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Jack Horner (paleontologist)

John R. "Jack" Horner (born June 15, 1946) is an American paleontologist most famous for discovering and naming Maiasaura, providing the first clear evidence that some dinosaurs cared for their young.

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Lakota people

The Lakota (pronounced, Lakota language: Lakȟóta) are a Native American tribe.

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List of Montana state parks

This is a list of state parks and reserves in the Montana state park system, in the United States.

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Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks

The Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks (MFWP) is a government agency in the executive branch state of Montana in the United States with responsibility for protecting sustainable fish, wildlife, and state-owned park resources in Montana for the purpose of providing recreational activities.

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Thescelosaurus

Thescelosaurus (ancient Greek θέσκελος-/theskelos- meaning "godlike", "marvelous", or "wondrous" and σαυρος/sauros "lizard") was a genus of small ornithopod dinosaur that appeared at the very end of the Late Cretaceous period in North America.

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Triceratops

Triceratops is a genus of herbivorous ceratopsid dinosaur that first appeared during the late Maastrichtian stage of the late Cretaceous period, about 68 million years ago (mya) in what is now North America.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Makoshika_State_Park

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