
In 2010, Kylie Ferguson, a 7-year-old attending a Junior Ranger program, decided to look for fossils next to the Ben Reifel Visitor Center. She found some bone exposed in an outcrop not far from the picnic benches. The fossils were left in place and reported to a ranger. The site was monitored by park paleontologists for the next several weeks. After a few rainfalls, more of the fossil was exposed, revealing the tips of saber teeth. Once park staff realized what Kylie had found, the fossil was recovered, prepared, and curated. Kylie discovered the skull of a nimravid (or false cat) called Hoplophoneus.
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Itineraries across USA

Acadia

Arches National Park

Badlands

Big Bend

Biscayne

Black Canyon Of The Gunnison

Bryce Canyon

Canyonlands

Capitol Reef

Carlsbad Caverns

Channel Islands

Congaree

Crater Lake

Cuyahoga Valley

Death Valley

Dry Tortugas

Everglades

Gateway Arch

Glacier

Grand Canyon

Grand Teton

Great Basin

Great Smoky Mountains

Guadalupe Mountains

Haleakalā

Hawaiʻi Volcanoes

Hot Springs

Indiana Dunes

Isle Royale

Joshua Tree

Kenai Fjords

Kobuk Valley

Lassen Volcanic

Mammoth Cave

Mesa Verde

Mount Rainier

North Cascades

Olympic

Petrified Forest

Pinnacles

Rocky Mountain

Saguaro

Shenandoah

Theodore Roosevelt

Virgin Islands

Voyageurs

White Sands

Wind Cave

Yellowstone

Yosemite

Zion