Badlands National Park Landscape Reveals New Genus Of Small, Hornless Deer
- By Kurt Repanshek - May 10th, 2024 2:30am
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Badlands National Park is one of several National Park System units located within the boundaries of South Dakota. Stunning scenery may be viewed all along the road, and you should stop at all the view areas for different perspectives of this 244,000-acre park.
Badlands National Park is a treasure trove of fossils, including these small, spherical, fossil dung beetle balls. Yup, that's right, fossilized dung beetle balls around 30 million years old, during a time when the landscape was a semi-tropical grassland with open forests.
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