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Ice Age Fox Goes On Display in Vernal

Posted on: September 4th, 2025

26,400-year-old Red Fox from Uinta Mountains on temporary exhibit at the Utah Field House of Natural History State Park Museum VERNAL, Utah — The skeleton of Roxy, an ice age red fox collected from deep in Whiterocks Cave in the Uinta Mountains a year ago, is now on temporary exhibit at the Utah Field House of Natural History State […]

Ice Age Camel Fossil Found Along the Green River in Utah

Posted on: August 25th, 2025

Ancient North American camel species represented by 33,000-year-old shin bone VERNAL, Utah — An old fossil discovery is providing new information to scientists nearly 40 years later. A fossil bone found in a sand pit near Vernal, Utah, in the 1980s has turned out to be an older-than-expected representative of a species of camel that was […]