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Eocene Epoch


46 Million-Year-Old Eocene World in a Forest

January 07, 2016 Michael A. Fracasso, US Forest Service

An intrepid fossil hunter on the U.S. Forest Service’s Flathead National Forest in northwest Montana doesn’t need to dig too deep to find exquisitely preserved fossil insects with traces of their original stomach contents. Amazing as this sounds you just need to visit rock outcrops of the Kishenehn...

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