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"The Colorado Desert of southeastern California was not always a seemingly barren wilderness.        This was once a verdant landscape- an environment of rivers and streams, lakes, forest and savanna. Before that it held an inland ocean."

 "Fossil Treasures of the Anza-Borrego Desert", 
George T. Jefferson and Lowell Lindsay, editors, Sunbelt Publications, San Diego California, 2006

Our 2022-2023 Paleontology Certification Class will begin on November 4, 2022.

Visit the Events page for class details.
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​Visit About Us for more information about the Paleontology Certification Program.

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​Thanks to our 2018-2020 Speakers

David M. Miller, Ph.D.
The eastern California shear zone, past and present

Jack Horner
The Real Jurassic Park
Building a Dinosaur


Tom Demèrè
Whales and Baleen: How the largest animals on Earth evolved to feed on some of the smallest

William Stout
Dinosaurs, Penguins and Whales: Wildlife of Antarctica


Greg McDonald
Smilodon: The Iconic Sabre-Tooth

Jessie Atterholt

The Mysterious World of Vertebral Canals in Birds and Other Archosaurs

Geof Spaulding
The Pleistocene Ecosystems of the Desert West

Steve Mulqueen
Petroleum Seeps: A Natural Phenomena with Significant Influence on History and Paleontology


Eric Ekdale 
Whales in the Digital Age: Using CT Imaging to unravel the mysteries of Baleen Whales

Lyndon Murray 
Introduction to ABDSP

Jenny Ross 
The Island of California: Is there a scientific explanation for the 17th century myth?

Ron Blakey, Jorge Ledesma, Monte Marshall, George Morgan and Pat Abbott
Geologic Change in Western North America Since the Age of Dinosaurs

Pat Abbott
Sturzstroms: Large Volume, High Velocity Killer Debris Flows
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PLANTS

The presence of petrified wood scattered across the desert floor tells a vivid story of pre-historic woodlands in the distant past.


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PALEOCLIMATE

The climatic and environmental story told by the rocks and fossils of the Park begins about 7 million years ago in the Miocene.

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VERTEBRATES

Discoveries from the fossil beds of the Anza-Borrego Desert have contributed to our understanding of the evolutionary history of  many vertebrate lineages.


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ROCKS

A look inside the rocks of Borrego. Bright colors identify the components of this plutonic rock.


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MAMMOTHS

The climatic and environmental story told by the rocks and fossils of the Park begins about 7 million years ago in the Miocene.

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INVERTEBRATES

Many of the species live today in the Gulf of California and a surprising number survive only in the Caribbean Sea.

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STRATIGRAPHY

Forces originating in the relative motion between the Pacific and North American plates are tearing the southwestern edge of  North America apart.

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RECENT DISCOVERIES

A fossil bird beak found in the 1960s has recently been re-identified as belonging to a “terror bird" - family Phorusrhacidae.

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EVENTS


Plan to join us in November for the start of our Certification Program, and at our monthly lectures from December to April.

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  • Home
  • Events
  • Learn
    • Contact
    • Anza-Borrego Story
    • Park Geology
    • What is a Fossil
    • Why Study Paleontology
    • How Old Are These Rocks
    • Collecting History
    • Ethics of Collecting
  • Explore
    • Tour the Visitor Center
    • Fossil Treasures
    • Paleoclimatology
    • Rocks of Anza-Borrego
  • Collections
    • Research Permits
  • About Us
    • Paleontology Society
    • Certification Program
    • Educational Support Committee
    • Press Room
  • Join
  • Support
  • Store
  • Links
  • Member Sign In