The Mission Jurassic dinosaur dig

In summer 2019, our palaeontologists joined an international team to dig for dinosaurs that lived around 150 million years ago.

Digging in the Jurassic Mile in northern Wyoming, USA, has already revealed a Brachiosaurus plus the bones of what could be a 30-metre-long Diplodocus.

Our experts spent a month on the site, sharing their expertise to help the team find not only dinosaurs but also prehistoric plants, fish and invertebrates.

Digging for dinosaurs

Find out about the excavations and follow the team’s adventures.

Our dinosaur researcher Dr Susie Maidment tells us more about the Mission Jurassic expedition in 2019 and what the palaeontologists hoped to find:

Explore the Jurassic

The team were searching for dinosaurs, plants and other animals that lived around 150 million years ago. Discover more about life in the Jurassic Period.

The Mission Jurassic collaborators

• The Children’s Museum of Indianapolisopens in a new window
• Naturalis Biodiversity Centeropens in a new window
• The University of Manchesteropens in a new window
• The Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsourceopens in a new window