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The Bonny Doon Ecological Reserve is a nature preserve of 552 acres (2.23 km 2) in the Santa Cruz Mountains of California, United States. The reserve protects several rare and endangered plant and animal species within an area known as the Santa Cruz Sandhills, an ancient seabed containing fossilized marine animals. [2]
March 30, 1973. The Calico Early Man Site is an archaeological site in an ancient Pleistocene lake located near Barstow in San Bernardino County in the central Mojave Desert of Southern California. This site is on and in late middle- Pleistocene fanglomerates (now-cemented alluvial debris flow deposits) known variously as the Calico Hills, the ...
August 22, 1975. The Blythe Intaglios or Blythe Geoglyphs are a group of gigantic figures incised on the ground near Blythe, California, in the Colorado Desert. The ground drawings or geoglyphs were created by humans for an as-yet-unknown reason. The intaglios are located east of the Big Maria Mountains, about 15 miles (24 km) north of downtown ...
The location of the state of New Mexico. Paleontology in New Mexico refers to paleontological research occurring within or conducted by people from the U.S. state of New Mexico. The fossil record of New Mexico is exceptionally complete and spans almost the entire stratigraphic column. [1] More than 3,300 different kinds of fossil organisms have ...
Prehistoric Trackways National Monument. Prehistoric Trackways National Monument is a national monument in the Robledo Mountains of Doña Ana County, New Mexico, United States, near the city of Las Cruces. The monument's Paleozoic Era fossils are on 5,255 acres (2,127 ha) [1] of land administered by the Bureau of Land Management. [2]
On Saturday, Aug. 10, the group encountered the 12-foot oarfish while exploring La Jolla Cove near San Diego, the Scripps Institution of Oceanography shared in a Facebook post featuring photos of ...
Sea levels rose and fell over time, so the state was home to a variety of ancient environments including shallow seas, estuaries and dry land. [2] More than 2,300 species of Tertiary insects have been documented in the ancient tar deposits of California. [11] Middle Eocene invertebrates of California included corals, gastropods, and pelecypods. [5]
The Puye Cliff Dwellings are the ruins of an abandoned pueblo, located in Santa Clara Canyon on Santa Clara Pueblo Reservation land near Española, New Mexico.Established in the late 1200s or early 1300s and abandoned by about 1600, this is among the largest of the prehistoric Indian settlements on the Pajarito Plateau, showing a variety of architectural forms and building techniques.