In addition, each second Saturday you can bring in your fossils for identification by a PRI staff paleontologist. September 8th Field Trips Come with PRI on a trip backward through time. We will collect fossils at five sites from May to September, each site containing successively older fossils from about 370 million back to about 450 million years old. Easy, on-site registration. Special Exhibits Cornell's Gilbert Mastodon Ongoing Come see one of the most complete mastodon skeletons ever found in New York State, collected in nearby Chemung County in late 1999.
Educational materials are available.
See the bones of modern Asian elephants on loan from the Syracuse Zoo, and learn how ancient humans may have hunted mastodons.