Park Paleontology News - Vol. 16, No. 1, Spring 2024

The 2018 Woolsey Fire burned substantial portions of Santa Monica National Recreation Area. A post-fire assessment for paleontological resources demonstrated that some fossils were damaged by the fire. This article summarizes some of the findings observed during the post-fire assessment at the recre

Dinosaur Trackway National Natural Landmark is part of Dinosaur State Park and Arboretum in central Connecticut. It preserves more than 2,000 tracks of dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals in 200-million-year-old strata deposited in the basin of a shallow lake. The tracks were discovered in 1966

Few of the millions of visitors to Independence National Historical Park may know that it made history by once displaying a mastodon skeleton in Independence Hall. This skeleton was part of Charles Willson Peale’s museum, which operated out of the building in the early 1800s. It was the first fossil