Digging the ‘Cool’ life

National survey finds that being a Paleontologist at The Mammoth Site is the “coolest career” in the state
While wearing sunglasses, four paleontologists at The Mammoth Site pose for a photo inside the facilty’s bonebed area. Pictured from left is Kelly Lubbers, Seth Vandenberg, Grace Self and Alex Gardner. Photo by Brett Nachtigall/Fall River County Herald-Star
While wearing sunglasses, four paleontologists at The Mammoth Site pose for a photo inside the facilty’s bonebed area. Pictured from left is Kelly Lubbers, Seth Vandenberg, Grace Self and Alex Gardner. Photo by Brett Nachtigall/Fall River County Herald-Star

HOT SPRINGS – A recent survey by the website career.io asked more than 3,000 respondents what they thought was the “Coolest Career” out there. Nationally, it was to be an Animator with Pixar Animation Studios in California, but in the state of South Dakota the coolest career, according to the survey, is to be a Paleontologist at The Mammoth Site in Hot Springs.

In describing a career at South Dakot…