In Search of Fossil Fish
Wherein we go on a fishing trip for 52-million year old fossils! The first in a series about the excavation of Fossil Lake, Wyoming. Check out "Lost World of Fossil Lake: Snapshots from Deep...
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Welcome to Fossil Lake!The area I'm standing in right now is the largestand most complete representation of early Eocene life in the world,about 52 million years old.This area, during the early Eocene, was a lot like what modern Florida is today.You had crocodilians, you had paddlefish, all different kinds of turtles,shrimp, crustaceans, and we even had insects, and bats,and a tiny three-toed horse that was only, like, 2 and a half feet tall at the shoulder.Not only do we have the actual animals preserved, but we have their behaviors, we have their feces, which are coprolites.We can tell what they were eating, we have leaves that have insects next to them and you can see the little insect bites in the leaves.It's an amazing representation of the biodive...
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Welcome to Fossil Lake!The area I'm standing in right now is the largestand most complete representation of early Eocene life in the world,about 52 million years old.This area, during the early Eocene, was a lot like what modern Florida is today.You had crocodilians, you had paddlefish, all different kinds of turtles,shrimp, crustaceans, and we even had insects, and bats,and a tiny three-toed horse that was only, like, 2 and a half feet tall at the shoulder.Not only do we have the actual animals preserved, but we have their behaviors, we have their feces, which are coprolites.We can tell what they were eating, we have leaves that have insects next to them and you can see the little insect bites in the leaves.It's an amazing representation of the biodive...
