Category: Fossil Digging

Quarry Stories: Tynsky’s Fossils

Every year, hundreds of visitors get to chisel into the 52-million-year-old history of Fossil Basin’s world-renowned fossil quarries. The experience of fossil digging is something magnificent to share with others. For strangers, friends, and families, it can be a highlight of any adventure, getting to find your part of prehistoric history buried into limestone. In […]

Quarry Stories: In Stone Fossils

Photos courtesy of In Stone Fossils In Stone Fossils is one of Fossil Basin’s family-owned fossil shops specializing in selling high-quality fossils, minerals, and other geological treasures. They offer a wide range of products—including dinosaur bones, ammonites, trilobites, and petrified wood—as well as unique fossil digging experiences such as sunset and night digs. In Stone […]

Quarry Stories: Fossil Safari

By Wolf Johnson When you think of the word “safari”, you may think about traveling across the world and exploring an exotic destination with some unique wildlife. However, south of Kemmerer, Wyoming, you can embark on a different safari, one that will take you millions of years back in time. At Warfield Fossils’ Fossil Safari, […]

Fossil Basin Featured in ‘Smithsonian’

Fossil Basin is featured in the September, 2022 issue of Smithsonian Magazine. The article, titled “The 50 Million-Year-Old Treasures of Fossil Lake,” explores the ancient history of the region, as well as the and culture surrounding the prehistoric lake and fossil digging. “’You’ve got schools of fish, you’ve got babies and adults. You’ve got predators and […]

Quarry Stories: American Fossil Quarry

When digging in one of the quarries near Kemmerer, WY, don’t let yourself feel like a “fish out of water” when you start finding, well, fish out of water. The area is home to not only centuries of fascinating community history, but millions of years of incredible biological and geological history. Here in Lincoln County, […]

5-tägige Reiseroute: Fossil Basin und Yellowstone & Grand Teton Nationalparks

Die Nationalparks Yellowstone und Grand Teton stehen auf der Liste der meistbesuchten Orte in Wyoming ganz oben. Doch weit entfernt von den Menschenmassen in Jackson und den Nationalparks liegt Kemmerer eingebettet in die sanften Hügel und den strahlend blauen Himmel am westlichen Rand des Cowboy-Staates. Nimm dir die weniger befahrene Straße und finde ein grünes […]

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