Fossil hunters discover mosasaur, other bones at Pembina Gorge

1892752+072515.n.gfh_.fossildig_2.jpg — Cole Wilson (left) and his grandfather, Raymond Thomson, brush and dig through rocks during a North Dakota USGS public fossil dig on Saturday, July 25, 2015, at the Pembina Gorge State Recreation Area in Walhalla, N.D. (Logan Werlinger/Grand Forks Herald)

By Ally Krupinsky

July 25, 2015 at 9:30 PM

1/4: Paleontologists explain places to dig during a North Dakota USGS public fossil dig on Saturday, July 25, 2015, at the Pembina Gorge State Recreation Area in Walhalla, N.D. (Logan Werlinger/Grand Forks Herald)

2/4: Paleontologist tools at a North Dakota USGS public fossil dig on Saturday, July 25, 2015, at the Pembina Gorge State Recreation Area in Walhalla, N.D. (Logan Werlinger/Grand Forks Herald)

3/4: Paleontologist, Becky Barnes, instructs Cole Wilson (from left), Raymond Thomson, Craig Fenske, and Emily Baird during a North Dakota USGS public fossil dig on Saturday, July 25, 2015, at the Pembina Gorge State Recreation Area in Walhalla, N.D. (Logan Werlinger/Grand Forks Herald)

4/4: Fish scales found during a North Dakota USGS public fossil dig are an estimated 80 million years old on Saturday, July 25, 2015, in Walhalla, N.D. (Logan Werlinger/Grand Forks Herald)

Fossil hunters discover mosasaur, other bones at Pembina Gorge

WALHALLA, N.D.--The heat didn't stop people from digging into the Pembina Gorge this week. Participants on Saturday afternoon were on the hunt for the remains of prehistoric beings during the annual fossil dig at the Pembina Gorge State Recreatio...