Led by paleontologists Logan King & Georgia Knauss

Fossil Point, the gem of our festival, is a remarkable window into the Late Jurassic period, approximately 150 million years in the past, when this now-arid landscape was a lush ecosystem hugging a braided river. Today, Fossil Point sits within the infamous Morrison Formation, a vast layer of sedimentary rock that has yielded some of the world’s most spectacular dinosaur fossils. Here, paleontologists have discovered numerous bones from sauropods—the long-necked, long-tailed herbivorous dinosaurs that rank among the largest land animals ever to walk the Earth. The bones were likely deposited when these enormous creatures perished along the ancient river banks and their remains were buried in sand and mud, which gradually turned to stone over millions of years, preserving the fossils for modern scientists to study.