Series: National Fossil Day Logo and Artwork – Prehistoric Life Illustrated

Celebrate the wonderful diversity of fossils!

• Glen Canyon National Recreation Area

  Article 1: Fossils of the 2024 National Fossil Day Artwork

  

  The 2024 National Fossil Day Art features a scene from the Early Jurassic in Glen Canyon National Recreation Area. Read more

• Mammoth Cave National Park

  Article 2: Fossils of the 2023 National Fossil Day Artwork

  

  One of the largest sharks to have swum the ancient Mississippian seas was Saivodus striatus, which is featured prominently in the 2023 National Fossil Day artwork. Read more

• Yellowstone National Park

  Article 3: Fossils of the 2022 National Fossil Day Artwork

  

  The 2022 National Fossil Day Artwork features a scene from Yellowstone in the Early Eocene (50 million years ago), during a time when the climate was warm and wet and supported a forested landscape. Read more

• Article 4: Fossils of the 2021 National Fossil Day Artwork

  

  Celebrate National Fossil Day 2021 with this year's official artwork—Our first featuring a dinosaur! The 2021 National Fossil Day Logo is inspired by the diverse record of Late Cretaceous dinosaur footprints from Denali National Park and Preserve in central Alaska. The logo features an Alaskan tyrannosaur walking under a northern polar night sky, through a mudflat, and encountering a trackway left by a hadrosaur (duck-billed dinosaur). Read more

• Article 5: Fossils of the 2020 National Fossil Day Artwork

  

  Learn about the 2020 National Fossil Day Logo which was inspired by the rich diversity of Permian marine fossils found at the Guadalupe Mountains and Glass Mountains of west Texas and New Mexico. The Permian Period (298 to 251 million years ago) represents the last geologic period of the Paleozoic Era, which ended with a massive extinction event at the boundary marking the end of the Permian and the beginning of the Triassic Period and the Mesozoic Era. Read more

• Article 6: Fossils of the 2019 National Fossil Day Artwork

  

  The giant ground sloth graphic is the official National Fossil Day 2019 artwork. It can be used to promote National Fossil Day 2019 activities and events and includes the date October 16, 2019. Read more

• Article 7: Fossils of the 2018 National Fossil Day Artwork

  

  The Quetzalcoatlus graphic is the official National Fossil Day 2018 artwork. It can be used to promote NFD 2018 activities and events and includes the date October 17, 2018. Read more

• Article 8: Fossils of the 2017 National Fossil Day Artwork

  

  The Paleozoic fish graphic is the official National Fossil Day 2017 artwork. It can be used to promote NFD 2017 activities and events and includes the date October 11, 2017. Read more

• Article 9: Fossils of the 2016 National Fossil Day Artwork

  

  The 2016 artwork features three iconic Pleistocene ("ice age") animals from the United States—saber-toothed cat, long-horned bison, and a condor flying above. The landscape is an idealized representation of southern Nevada within what is now Tule Springs Fossil Beds National Monument... Read more

• Article 10: Fossils of the 2015 National Fossil Day Artwork

  

  The 2015 National Fossil Day artwork features an enigmatic prehistoric mammal known as a chalicothere (derived from Greek words meaning "gravel beast"), a large herbivore, depicted in a Miocene prairie grassland. The scene is an idealized representation of Cenozoic Era life and landscapes... Read more

• Article 11: Fossils of the 2014 National Fossil Day Artwork

  

  The 2014 National Fossil Day artwork features an ancient reptile, known as an aetosaur, surrounded by a variety of Late Triassic plants. The scene is an idealized representation of a Mesozoic Era ecosystem which was the theme for the 2014 National Fossil Day. Read more

• Article 12: Fossils of the 2013 National Fossil Day Artwork

  

  The "Paleozoic marine invertebrates" graphic was the official National Fossil Day 2013 artwork. It features an idealized representation of a seafloor from the Ordovician Period. Read more

• Article 13: Fossils of the 2012 National Fossil Day Artwork

  

  The "mammoth" graphic is the official National Fossil Day 2012 artwork. Read more

• Article 14: Fossils of the 2011 National Fossil Day Artwork

  

  A fearsome predator of warm Cretaceous seas, the mosasaur was featured on the 2011 National Fossil Day artwork Read more