Photo Gallery (U.S. National Park Service)

Fossils connect us with ancient ecosystems—plants and animals that lived thousands or even billions of years ago. Their lessons of migration, adaptation, and extinction are important today because we live on a changing.

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a young kid wearing a straw hat and backpack kneels in the dirt while watching a woman in a khaki uniform show her something in the ground.

Junior Ranger

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a man in a beige polo and jeans stands outside under a tent and points to a tall banner that reads National Fossil Day.

National Fossil Day Event

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3.4 MB

A man in a suit and glasses stands at at a podium outside with a National Park Service Tent behind him and a crowd of kids in front of him.

National Fossil Day event

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3.0 MB

a group of 5 school aged children wearing bright orange shirts touch and squeeze sponges sitting in tubs of water while outside in a desert landscape.

Students

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11.2 MB

a young woman in a khaki uniform sits in the dirt and holds a metal plane over a rock as a young girl hits the top of it with a chisel. They are outside surrounded by rock walls.

GeoCorps interns

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3.4 MB

a man stands under a beige tent behind a table with a banner that reads National Fossil Day behind him.

National Fossil Day event

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3.5 MB

a young man in a white lab coat sits a desk and shows a group of visitors a fossil he is cleaning.

Cleaning fossils

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1.6 MB

several young children in blue tee shirts and backpacks line up at a tent outside that reads National Park Service.

National Fossil Day 2012

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a young woman in a blue button up shirt stands on the side of a rock cliff and points at a dinosaur trackway.

Pointing out a trackway

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3.0 MB

a woman in a khaki uniform stands under an outdoor covering and addresses a group of visitors standing at a table with skulls and fossils on it.

Fossil encounters

3000 x 4000
2.2 MB

3 young toddlers play in plastic tub full of sand.

Junior Paleontologists

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0.2 MB

2 women stand on either side of a banner that reads "National Fossil Day" outside on a gravel path.

National Fossil Day 2012

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0.7 MB

a panoramic of a field filled with green tents/ booths and school aged students talking to those sitting at tents/booths.

National Fossil

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0.2 MB

a woman reaches over a table to point at drawing of a dinosaur two little kids are looking at.

STEM outreach

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2.6 MB

2 women in ranger uniforms address a group of young kids. One of the rangers is holding a fossilized jaw bone.

National Fossil Day event

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0.1 MB

a woman standing behind a table full of fossils under a green tent talks to a group of young students.

National Fossil Day Coordinato...

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a man and a woman stand indoors behind a table full of fossils and point out things to a group of kids listening to them.

National Fossil Day event

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0.5 MB

a woman in a white polo stands indoors behind a table full of fossils and diagrams with a banner that says National Fossil Day.

STEM outreach

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4.9 MB

Paleontology: Education

Junior Ranger

National Fossil Day Event

National Fossil Day event

Students

GeoCorps interns

National Fossil Day event

Cleaning fossils

National Fossil Day 2012

Pointing out a trackway

Fossil encounters

Junior Paleontologists

National Fossil Day 2012

National Fossil

STEM outreach

National Fossil Day event

National Fossil Day Coordinato...

National Fossil Day event

STEM outreach

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