Saturday, July 17, 2010

Putting the Bad in Badlands




Just about the last thing we did in South Dakota was visit Badlands National Park. The geology is cool...we just love the striated bands.



They had a fossil walk and most of the fossils were from the Ogliocene Epoch. So, they were early mammals--some predecessors of common species like horses and pigs and dogs...and some weird little aunts and uncles on the family tree that died out. I realized that dinosaurs soak up all the attention (well, they were huge and fairly fascinating) and I don't know much about these species.
I think I'd like to change all that.

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