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Look through the John Day Fossil Beds National Monument website to find the following answers! Once completed, you can find the answers by clicking the link on the bottom of the page.

Easier Questions

1. What does the park protect?
2. Are dinosaurs found at John Day Fossil Beds?
3. How much does it cost to visit the park?
4. Can you take home fossils found at the park?
5. How many acres make up the park?
6. Where can you find a list of plants and animals that live at John Day Fossil Beds?

Harder Questions

1. At what time period did it annually rain 100 inches in what is now ancient, eastern Oregon? Hint, visit the Clarno Nut Beds page.
2. How many species of fruits and nuts were preserved in the fossil record at the Clarno Nut Beds?
3. About 40 million years ago, how many toes did the horse, Haplohippus, have about 40 million years ago? Hint, visit the Hancock Mammal Quarry page.
4. What is Oregon's state fossil that still lives today in eastern Asia? Hint, visit the Bridge Creek assemblage page.
5. What primate was found in the Turtle Cove assemblage?
6. How were beavers in ancient Oregon different than today's beavers? Hint, visit the Upper John Day assemblage.
7. How many tusks did the Gomphotherium or ancestral elephant have? Hint, visit the Mascall assemblage.
8. What is the name of the 12-foot relative of modern bears? Hint, visit the Rattlesnake assemblage.

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