In 2021 Montana State Parks’ free lease of 337 acres at Hell Creek on Fort Peck Reservoir expires. Between now and then the state is planning to negotiate a new 20-year lease with the U.S. Army ...

When he interviewed for the Hell Creek position, Montana State Parks’ management was still focused on a long-term presence there. Now his future at the park is uncertain.

Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks and the Charles M. Russell National Wildlife Refuge are seeking public comment on four proposed trail projects to be constructed in and near Hell Creek State Park.

BILLINGS – The state parks board threw down the gauntlet to state legislators, federal and private partners, as well as the users of Hell Creek State Park on Thursday: Either come to the table ...

These oral characteristics suggest that Brachychampsa may have preyed on turtles, which were very common in the Hell Creek fauna. The first alligator ancestors evolved some 245 million years ago.

If some of these decision makers in Helena have never been out to eastern Montana and enjoyed Fort Peck Lake -- you couldn’t find a better time to visit than now. It’s a lake that boasts a ...

In the badlands of Montana's Hell Creek Formation — one of the richest fossil beds on the planet — researchers from the University of Kansas unearthed a dinosaur that could be a young ...

The Hell Creek Formation lies in northeastern Montana and is particularly rich in fossils from the late Cretaceous period, near the end of the reign of the dinosaurs.

All of the fossils were found in a a geological formation known as "Hell Creek," which dates back to the latest part of the Cretaceous Period—around 66 to 68 million years ago.

The T. rex was found by paleontologists from Burke Museum and the University of Washington (UW) in Montana's famous dinosaur-fossil haven, the Hell Creek Formation.

BILLINGS – In 2021 Montana State Parks' free lease of 337 acres at Hell Creek on Fort Peck Reservoir expires. Between now and then the state is planning to negotiate a new 20-year lease with the ...