Fossil Fish, Pt. II: A History
Join us for Part II in our quest to uncover the tropical world of ancient Fossil Lake! Palm trees in Wyoming! Sex in the fossil record! Check out "Lost World of Fossil Lake: Snapshots from...
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- So see, he plowed up this giant rock here and it's got a palm leaf on it. - Oh wow. - So we're here with Lance Grande, who is the distinguished service curator at the Field Museum, and we are standing in a giant rock quarry in Wyoming - This is a great lake system, called the Green River lake system, which persisted almost 20 million years. - Oh man. - [It's] one of the longest-lived lake systems that we know of. - Wow. - And we're in the smallest and shortest-lived of those lakes, Fossil Lake, which probably only existed about a million and a half years. But that's a long time for any lake, especially when you consider the Great Lakes in North America. They're only about 10,000 years old. - Wow, yeah, we got nothing on this lake ...
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- So see, he plowed up this giant rock here and it's got a palm leaf on it. - Oh wow. - So we're here with Lance Grande, who is the distinguished service curator at the Field Museum, and we are standing in a giant rock quarry in Wyoming - This is a great lake system, called the Green River lake system, which persisted almost 20 million years. - Oh man. - [It's] one of the longest-lived lake systems that we know of. - Wow. - And we're in the smallest and shortest-lived of those lakes, Fossil Lake, which probably only existed about a million and a half years. But that's a long time for any lake, especially when you consider the Great Lakes in North America. They're only about 10,000 years old. - Wow, yeah, we got nothing on this lake ...
