Two “paleonerds” embark on a roadtrip across the West in search of fossils.
The new …
There's a fossil camel from the corner of 6th and Clermont, a group of Ice Age peccaries from excavation for the Colorado capitol building, chunks of mammoths from the stream valleys, a dinosaur rib from the home plate at Coors Field, and fossil palm trunks from all over town.
— Cruisin' the Fossil Freeway by Kirk Johnson, Ray Troll (Page 14)
new vocabulary: peccary
any of several largely nocturnal gregarious American mammals resembling the related pigs