We were working on our hands and knees in a dusty 150 million year old watering hole, a snapshot in time that is now the Mygatt- Moore Quarry in Western Colorado. The site is in the desert terrain of Rabbit Valley, west of Fruita near the Utah border, where over the past twenty years more than 3000 bones have been collected from the quarry.
Our personal exploration uncovered two prizes, along with dozens of broken bone and tooth bits. Fi
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In an area along the Yellowstone River, just across the Montana border from Yellowstone National Park, there is a tiny sign at a Highway 89 turnout that most visitors miss. Every winter, the largest wildlife migration in the lower 48 states leaves Yellowstone and passes this point, returning to the park in the spring.
The numbers are astonishing. In October, about 500 pronghorn antelope make the trek from mountain valleys to sn
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