Lava Cast Forest

Here some 6,000 years ago lava poured in a forest and as the molten stone surrounded the trunks of trees, it preserved the molds of these trees. Sometimes these holes contain even imprints of the tree bark, some charcoals.

Painted Hills

Painted Hills, Oregon

Spectacular outcroppings of colored rocks over a larger area. There are red-colored laterite outcroppings, dark-colored layers of lignite, and grey-colored mudstone, siltstone, and shale layers. Rocks contain many fossils of early horses, camels, and other animals.

Oregon Caves

Oregon Caves

Beautiful show caves that were discovered in 1874. Caves have formed in marble and through the cave system flows a river – River Styx. The total length of passages is around 4,600 m. The cave contains valuable fossils including remnants of a grizzly bear, jaguar, and others.

Thomas Farm Site

One of the richest finds of Miocene (18 million years ago) land animal fossils in the world. Here have been found remnants of rhinoceroses, three species of horses, camels, dogs, and many other extinct animals, in total – more than 100 species.

Page-Ladson prehistory site

Rich find of prehistoric fossils of animals and artifacts left by people 12,500 – 10,500 BC. Here were found bones of animals living at the time when people were already here – elephants, mastodons, mammoths, horses, ground sloths. Chop marks on bones show that people hunted mastodons and other animals.

Warm Mineral Springs

Warm Mineral Springs

Enormous spring of warm mineral water with healing properties. This is one of the candidates for the legendary “Fountain of Youth” in Florida. The diameter of this spring is approximately 75 m, depth – 70 m. Discharging 390 l/s and considered to be the largest warm mineral spring in the whole world. In the spring have been found well preserved skeletal remains of humans, mastodon, sabertooth tiger.

Little Salt Spring

Little Salt Spring

Water filled, 61 m deep sinkhole. At the depth of 3 m, the water becomes anoxic. Thanks to this in the sinkhole – spring have been preserved numerous examples of prehistoric fauna and remnants of Palaeo-Indians: hundreds of burials from 4,800 – 3,200 BC.

Devil’s Den in Florida

Inside the Devil's Den, Florida

A karst window: here through a narrow opening opens a view of a large subterranean river. Here were found remains of animals and traces of prehistoric human activities.

Lehner Mammoth-Kill Site

Lehner Mammoth-Kill Site

In this place, people of Clovis culture killed mammoths around 9,000 BC. There have been found bones of other extinct animals as well.

Giant Logs and Long Logs

Giant Logs, petrified trunks of prehistoric trees

Some of the best examples of large petrified logs of Araucarioxylon arizonicum in varied colors from the Late Triassic period.