at the museum

on Friday me and mom visited the
Douglas County Museum of Natural and Cultural History
for the grand unveiling of their new fossil exhibits all of the fossils were found here in Douglas County! above is a picture of a fossil mammoth tusk and tooth.

A fossil mammoth lower jaw


A fossil mastodon tusk


Fossil horse tooth


Fossil shells

Me with a "real live mammoth"

Hawk

Black shouldered kite

Osprey

Bobcats with a dead beaver

Coyotes, red foxes, gray foxes

A mammoth tusk (not fossilized). It was found in the same Umpqua River that flows past the ranch.

Fragments of a fossil mammoth tusk

Back at the ranch

A giant diving beetle. In the background is a quarter to show its size.