I’ve found a good overview website from the American Geological Institute about evolution and the fossil record that also has a handy concise summary of Darwin’s Theory of Evolution. But now I’m starting to become more interested in the fossil record. When’s the last time you really thought about fossils? High School science class? That museum somebody dragged you into on your last family vacation? Me too.
Then I ambled across the road to the Historic Cant Ranch, a restored old sheep ranch and house, just as a big dark thunderstorm started to brew. Bummed! I speed-wandered through the exhibit (40 million years in 8 minutes) and grabbed some pamphlets before the Ranger chased me out. I showed up at the Thomas Condon Visitor Center – ten minutes before closing. The monument is actually three separate areas – a total of 20,000 square miles – spread out along the John Day River valley. Driving back to Wyoming from Bend on Oregon 26 (oooh, so gorgeous), I didn’t want to show up at my motel early, so I stopped at the Sheep Rock Unit of the monument. I didn’t plan on going to John Day Fossil Beds. Pretty good overview of evolution with detailed examples, but I cracked up every time the narrator adopted a limply terrible British accent to read the Darwin quotes. I listened to the audiobook of Jerry Coyne’s Why Evolution Is True on my Oregon road trip. And of course, I have been gettin’ my Darwin on – lots of fossil talk. I didn’t realize this until a recent trip to John Day Fossil Beds National Monument in eastern Oregon. I have never been on a fossil dig I’m no paleontologist right? But I dig fossils, man.
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