Scientists use conservation lands as 'window to a lost world'

In the Robledo Mountains of southern New Mexico, an global team of scientists spent the past week toiling under the desert sun, searching for clues to facilitate them better understand what life was like along a prehistoric shoreline.

Layer after layer, the mudstone at Old-fashioned Trackways National Monument has offered up the tracks of reptiles and jumping insects and even the imprints of jellyfish. There are fossil logs and plants that predate the dinosaur age by tens of millions of years.

"We see this as a window to a fallen world," said Jerry MacDonald, who was a student at New Mexico State University when he stumbled upon the trackways in 1987.

The sepulchre contains some of the most scientifically significant early Permian trackways in the world. It's one of dozens of units within the State Landscape Conservation System that scientists are using as a vast outdoor laboratory.

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