The Fossil Quarry Zoo and Aquarium is a zoo located in Ashfall, Nebraska. The zoo is operated by the Greene Foundation.
The site where the zoo is built is home to a large collection of fossils dating back to the Miocene Epoch, notably the Devil's Ranch Fossil Site is on property.
History
Animals and Exhibits
Penguin Plunge
- King Penguin
- Magellanic Penguin
- Southern Rockhopper Penguin
- Macaroni Penguin
Beety Education Building
- Wyoming Toad
- Puerto Rican Crested Toad
- Dumeril’s Boa
- Black-footed Ferret
- Southern Flying Squirrel
- Southern Three-banded Armadillo
- American Burying Beetle
- Cope’s Gray Treefrog
- Blacknose Shiner
- Northern Redbelly Dace
- Pallid Sturgeon
- Sturgeon Chub
- Topeka Shiner
- Higgin’s Eye Pearly Mussel
- Scaleshell Mussel
- Winged Mapleleaf
Fossil Trail
- Bluegill
- Largemouth Bass
- Loggerhead Musk Turtle
- Stinkpot
- Painted Turtle
- Red-eared Slider
- Eastern Tiger Salamander
- Five-lined Skink
- Ouachita Dusky Salamander
- Eastern Newt
- Broad-headed Skink
- Great Plains Skink
- Western Slender Glass Lizard
- Three-toed Box Turtle
- Ornate Box Turtle
- Copperhead
- Cottonmouth
- Eastern Racer
- Milksnake
- Prairie Kingsnake
- American Alligator
- Common Snapping Turtle
- Guanaco
- Dromedary Camel
- Galapagos Giant Tortoise
- Gray Fox
- Raccoon Dog
- Dhole
- Siberian Musk Deer
- Turkey Vulture
- Secretarybird
- Mexican Beaded Lizard
- Baird’s Tapir
- Chacoan Peccary
- Red Panda
- European Badger
- Wolverine
- Giant Short-faced Bear
- Red-and-White Giant Flying Squirrel
- Mongolian Wild Horse
- American Mastodon
- Jefferson’s Ground Sloth
- Greater One-horned Rhinoceros
- Grey Crowned Crane
- Bushy-tailed Woodrat
- North American Saber-toothed Cat
African Adventure
- Western Lowland Gorilla
- Red River Hog
- West African Potto
- Chimpanzee
- Mandrill
- Wolf’s Guenon
- Okapi
- Congo Peafowl
- Cameroon Flashlight Frog
- Gambo
- Pygmy Hippopotamus
- African Cichlids
- Senegal Bichir
- Bonobo
- Eastern Bongo
- Yellow-backed Duiker
- Crocodylus anthropophagus
- Crocodylus thorbjarnarsoni
- Dinofelis aronoki
- Dinofelis barlowi
- Dinofelis darti
- Dinofelis piveteaui
- Dinopithecus ingens
- Equus capensis (Giant Cape Zebra)
- Equus quagga quagga (Quagga)
- Hippotragus leucocephalus (Bluebuck)
- Kolpochoerus olduvaiensis (Giant River Hog)
- Pelorovis oldowayensis
- Rusingoryx atopocranion
- Sivatherium giganteum
- Sivatherium maurusium
- Syncerus antiquus (Giant Buffalo)
- Euthecodon brumpti
- Megantereon adroveri
- Metridiochoerus andrewsi (Giant Warthog)
- Viverra leakeyi (Leakey's Civet)
- Aepyornis gracilis (Gracile Elephant Bird)
- Aepyornis maximus (Giant Elephant Bird)
- Aldabrachelys abrupta (Abrupt Giant Tortoise)
- Aldabrachelys grandidieri (Grandidier’s Giant Tortoise)
- Alopchen sirabensis (Malagasy Shelduck)
- Archaeoindris fontoynontii (Giant Sloth Lemur)
- Archaeolemur edwardsi (Edward’s Monkey Lemur)
- Archaeolemur majori (Major’s Monkey Lemur)
- Babakotia radofilai
- Brachypteracias langrandi (Ampoza Ground Roller)
- Brachytarsomys mahajambaensis (Antsangy)
- Centrornis majori (Malagasy Sheldgoose)
- Coua berthae (Berthe’s Coua)
- Daubentonia robusta (Giant Aye-Aye)
- Hadropithecus stenognathus (Baboon Lemur)
- Hippopotamus lalaomena (Laloumena Dwarf Hippopotamus)
- Hippopotamus lemerlei (Lemerle’s Dwarf Hippopotamus)
- Hippopotamus madagascariensis (Madagascar Dwarf Hippopotamus)
- Hovacrex roberti (Hova Gallinule)
- Hypogeomys australis (Giant Jumping Rat)
- Macronycteris besaoka (Roundleaf Bat)
- Megaladapis edwardsi (Edward’s Koala Lemur)
- Megaladapis grandidieri (Grandidier’s Koala Lemur)
- Megaladapis madagascariensis (Greater Koala Lemur)
- Microgale macpheei (MacPhee’s Shrew Tenrec)
- Nesomys narinadensis (Forest Rat)
- Pachylemur insignis
- Pachylemur jullyi
- Palaeopropithecus ingens (Clever Sloth Lemur)
- Palaeopropithecus kelyus (Kely Sloth Lemur)
- Palaeopropithecus maximus (Large Sloth Lemur)
- Pantodon madagascariensis (Malagasy Lampeye)
- Plesiorycteropus madagascariensis (Bibymalagasy)
- Coua delalandei (Delalande’s Coua)
- Tachybaptus rufolavatus (Alaotra Grebe)
- Triaenops goodmani (Trident Bat)
- Vanellus madagascariensis (Malagasy Lapwing)
- Alectroenas nitidissimus (Mauritius Blue Pigeon)
- Alophochen mauritianus (Mauritian Shelduck)
- Anas theodori (Mauritius Duck)
- Aphanapteryx bonasia (Red Rail)
- Bolyeria multocarinata (Round Island Burrowing Boa)
- Cryptospar ischyrhynchus (Mauritius Starling)
- Cylindraspis inepta (Saddle-backed Mauritius Giant Tortoise)
- Cylindraspis triserrata (Domed Mauritius Giant Tortoise)
- Fulica newtoni (Mascarene Coot)
- Leiolopisma mauritiana (Mauritius Giant Skink)
- Loohopsittacus mauritianus (Broad-billed Parrot)
- Madatyphlops cariei (Hoffstetter’s Worm Snake)
- Mascarenotus sauzieri (Commerson’s Ow)
- Nycticorax mauritianus (Mauritius Night Heron)
- Psittacula bensoni (Thirioux’s Grey Parrot)
- Pteropus subniger (Small Mauritian Flying Fox)
- Raphus cucullatus (Dodo)
- Alectroenas payandeei (Rodrigues Blue Pigeon)
- Aphanapteryx legueti (Leguet’s Rail)
- Cylindraspis peltastes (Domed Rodrigues Giant Tortoise)
- Cylindraspis vosmaeri (Saddle-backed Rodrigues Giant Tortoise)
- Hypsipetes cowlesi (Rodrigues Bulbul)
- Mascarenotus murivorus (Rodrigues Owl)
- Necropsar rodericanus (Rodrigues Starling)
- Necropsittacus rodericanus (Rodrigues Parrot)
- Nesoenus rodericana (Rodrigues Dove)
- Nycticorax megalocephalus (Rodrigues Night Heron)
- Pezophaps solitaria (Rodrigues Solitaire)
- Phelsuma edwardnewtoni (Blue-dotted Day Gecko)
- Phelsuma gigas (Rodrigues Giant Day Gecko)
- Psittacula cowlesi (Rodrigues Parakeet)
- Alopchen kervazoi (Reunion Shelduck)
- Cylindraspis indica (Reunion Giant Tortoise)
- Dryolimnas augusti (Dubois’ Wood Rail)
- Falco duboisi (Reunion Kestrel)
- Fregilupus varias (Hoopoe Starling)
- Mascarenotus grucheti (Reunion Owl)
- Mascarinus mascarinus (Mascarene Parrot)
- Nesoenas duboisi (Reunion Pink Pigeon)
- Nycticorax duboisi (Reunion Night Heron)
- Porphyrio coerulescens (Reunion Swamphen)
- Psittacula eques eques (Reunion Parakeet)
- Threskiornis solitarius (Reunion Flightless Ibis)
- Aldabrachampsus dilophus
- Nesillas aldabrana (Aldabra Brush Warbler)
- Psittacula wardi (Seychelles Parakeet)
- Zosterops semiflavus (Marianne White-eye)
- Cryptoprocta spelea (Giant Fossa)
- Ptychochromis onilaby
- Stephanoaetus mahery (Malagasy Crowned Eagle)
- Voay robustus (Madagascar Horned Crocodile)
- African Gray Parrot
- African Pygmy Goose
- Bruce’s Green Pigeon
- Cape Thick-knee
- Cattle Egret
- Egyptian Fruit Bat
- Golden-breasted Starling
- Greater Flamingo
- Hadada Ibis
- Hammerhead Bat
- Lady Ross’s Turaco
- Lesser Flamingo
- Lilac-breasted Roller
- Long-haired Rousette
- Maccoa Duck
- Rodrigues Flying Fox
- Straw-colored Fruit Bat
- Superb Starling
- Waldrapp Ibis
- White-cheeked Turaco
- White-faced Whistling Duck
- Marabou Stork
- Pink-backed Pelican
- Saddle-billed Stork
- Shoebill
- African Bush Elephant
- Dung Beetles
- Elephant Dung Bat
- Hooded Vulture
- Lappet-faced Vulture
- Ruppell’s Griffon Vulture
- White-backed Vulture
- White-rumped Vulture
- African Lion
- Egyptian Tortoise
- African Painted Dog
- Addax
- Common Ostrich
- Gemsbok
- Grevy’s Zebra
- Reticulated Giraffe
- Scimitar-horned Oryx
- Thomson’s Gazelle
- Vulturine Guineafowl
- Black Rhinoceros
- Spotted Hyena
- Hamadryas Baboon
- Rock Hyrax
Harmon Family Reptile House
- Asian Water Monitor
- Papuan Frill-necked Lizard
- African Pancake Tortoise
- Sudan Plated Lizard
- Colorado River Toad
- Sheltopusik
- Reticulated Python
- Crocodile Monitor
- African Bullfrog
- Nile Monitor
- Ball Python
- Wyoming Toad
- Panamanian Golden Frog
- Golden Toad
- Blue Poison Dart Frog
- Yellow-banded Poison Dart Frog
- Puerto Rican Crested Toad
- Corn Snake
- Madagascar Hissing Cockroach
Other Attractions
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Educational Programs
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Paleontology
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