Our first event of the 2019-2020 season is our annual Open House

Saturday, October 19, 1:30 to 4pm
Sunday, October 20, 9am to noon

Meet at the Visitors Center for the short walk over to the Stout Research Center.

The modern Anza-Borrego Desert is a treasure trove of camelid fossils and is quite possibly the greatest for any site in North America. In the Anza-Borrego paleontological record, camels are the second-most common group, second only to horses. But their diversity is greater. There are at least eight different forms of camels known. And a wide array of camel and llama tracks are found in extensive trackways in preserved muddy deposits.
Visit us at our Open House on Saturday and Sunday to see our featured camel specimens and tracks. We will also be showing our work using 3D scanning and photogrammetry to create digital images and printable models of fossils.
 In the Paleontology Laboratory we are preparing our latest Mammoth skull, numerous mammoth bones and a giant land tortoise – all will be on display.
 
Meet at the ABDSP Visitors Center for the short walk over to the Stout Research Center.
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Thanks to our 2018-2019 Season Lecturers

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 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.

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.

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 October for our annual Open House, November for the start of our Certification Program, and at our monthly lectures from December to April.

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