Images from Agate Fossil Beds National Monument, Nebraska
Agate Fossil Beds is a national monument designated to protect a large number of Miocene fossils, namely ancestors of the horse, pig, rhinoceros, gazelle, beaver, and bear dog(!). This is a remote site that features two small hills, Carnegie and University (where many of the fossils were found), and beautiful, rolling grasslands once so prevalent on the Great Plains.
Cute western rattlesnake along the trailUniversity and Carnegie hills (respectively)Near a paleontology dig site (a series of ancient ponds) that produced the remains of rhinoceroses, bear dogs, land beavers, camels, horses, and pocket gophersPowerful thunderstorm (and its sixty mile per hours winds!)
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