Valley City (CSi) Bob, the triceratops dinosaur may be history, in Valley City, unless dollars are found to keep in at the Barnes County Museum in Valley City.

 

Bob is one of the largest and most complete triceratops found to date, and his 65-million-year-old bones have been on display at the Barnes County Historical Society since June of 2014.

The dinosaur was found in the far southwestern part of the state in Bowman County on the Craig and Bobbi Egeland ranch, near the South Dakota border. Fossils in that area are 65 million to 70 million years old, in the Late Cretaceous period.

Curator, Wes Anderson says unless the museum can raise $1.4 million to buy Bob from the people who excavated and preserved him, Bob will be leaving the museum. He points out that most dinosaur skeletons in museums are replica castings or assemblages of fossils from several animals.

Hell Creek Relics, is operated by Alan Komrosky of Valley City.

He says, it took 11 years and 21,000 man-hours of painstaking work to free Bob from the rock where his bones were found in 2003, plus a steel frame had to be built to mount the skeleton.

Bob’s price tag is $1.4 million.

The investors want their cash including the owners of the land where Bob was found and Komrosky has to get money to get back into the field and search for more fossils.

Bob can be seen on the Hell Creek Relics website

www.hellcreekrelicsvc.com