Prehistoric Desert Dwellers

Last weekend we joined other buggistas in the Anza-Borrego desert. A private party has commissioned a metalworking sculptor to create life-sized facimilies of creatures that, according to the fossil record, once lived in the area. The figures are positioned throughout the desert, and though not widely known about, are starting to generate their own tourism.





Ancient Desert Camels. The baby has a strange hump on it's back.




Apparently three-toed sloth mothers carried their babies on their backs.


A sitting Giant Three-Toed Sloth. The grandkids will have fun picking me out in this picture.



I called this creature an elephant but was quickly corrected by a local resident. I forget what he called it, but it definitely isn't an elephant according to him. It has upper and lower tusks. The look is long and somewhat strange, but after seeing the other creature likenesses this representation must be what the non-elephant really looked like.


Mexican Standoff with whatever it is.