Participants hiked to the dig site and recovered specimens including fossilized bones from turtles, alligators, possible raptors and duck-billed dinosaurs, gar fish scales, teeth, vegetation fossils, palm fruit from wetland plant species and many other samples.  The samples collected were sent home with the participants as a reminder of the experience and to hopefully be used to peak other interests when asked about the specimens.  Imagine these youth showing their friends what they found and telling them “I found this, and yea this fossil was deposited by the Flood of Noah’s Day 4.500 years ago like the Bible says and is evidence the Bible is true!”

The participants learned about the landscape they hiked across and observed the layers of sediment laid down over the year-long global flood event.  Participants could see the planation surfaces along with the erosional canyons and remnants left behind after the flood waters receded, all along the beautiful Yellowstone River Valley.  The group dug in a foot or two layer of sediment that continues to yield both organic plant material mixed with fossils from animal life.  The layer was an obvious burial ground from the catastrophic event and the majority of samples reveal bits and pieces of the plants and animals that lived before the flood and it is very rare to find complete fossilized skeletal remains.  Also, the fact you find both marine and terrestrial specimens together further give evidence to a global flood washing away both ocean and terrestrial ecosystems buried in the sediment.