Fossil Butte National Monument

An obscure monument in the hills of Wyoming. It's hot and dry even though this used to be the bottom of an ancient sea. The sea creatures left layers of fossils in the buttes!

It was a climb up to the quarry.

Do you see the fish skeleton? (It's a faint black line that looks like the spine.)

We met the paleontologist who was excavating the site. It's a long long process. (And requires more dedication and patience than any of us can muster!)

All the black marks are the places where they found fish skeletons.

You can barely see the tiny quarry high on the hill. We are not sure how they found the first fossils there!