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.
Close-Up Of A Fossil Dung Beetle Ball, Badlands National Park
Rebecca Latson
Thursday, May 23, 2024
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