College students excavated a 7-foot-long, 3,000-pound Triceratops skull while on a dig in South Dakota's Badlands this summer,Westminster College announced.
David Schmidt, an associate professor of geology and environmental science, led the group excavation dig, which included three current students and four alumni, at the Grand River National Grassland.
"It was so exciting ... we just didn't believe it," Schmidt told Westminster College.