White River Badlands: prospecting for ancient tortoise fossils – Research News https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/science/white-river-badlands-prospecting-for-ancient-tortoise-fossils/
Drying waterholes, baked brown grasses, and the ever-blowing hot wind greeted us, as my wife Shelley and I pushed our dust-coated car down the dirt roads toward Toadstool Park. We drove from Florida to this desolate corner of Northwestern Nebraska to collect fossil tortoises (add in time element her
mid-continent of North America in the late Eocene and early Oligocene epochs, some 30 to 35 million