badlands
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It’s also Robby’s final day of work before embarking on a three-month motorcycle road trip set to take him from Pittsburgh to the Canadian badlands.
From Salon • Jan. 8, 2026
"The badlands in Wyoming where the finds were made is a unique 'mummy zone' that has more surprises in store from fossils collected over years of visits by teams of university undergrads."
From Science Daily • Nov. 30, 2025
The town is surrounded by Anza-Borrego Desert State Park — about 650,000 acres of badlands, sand, boulders, slot canyons and Washingtonia filifera palms, the only kind native to California.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 5, 2023
The fossil was discovered in the Bisti/De-Na-Zin Wilderness Area, which is home to badlands and unique rock formations and is largely overseen by the federal Bureau of Land Management.
From Washington Post • Sep. 3, 2022
Accustomed to farming the Thanagost badlands, they weren’t the sort to sit idle, but helped out however they could.
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
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