5/25/2023 0 Comments Hell's aquarium![]() ![]() Scientists estimate they’ve only found fossilized evidence of less than 1% of all the species that have ever lived. ![]() Here, a group from Fort Hays State University scrambles down the rock formations.Ī lot has to go right for any fossil to last 80 million years. Paleontologists have been coming to places like the Castle Rock badlands for more than a century to unearth new discoveries from the bottom of the Western Interior Seaway. ( Kansas News Service) - How do you save sea turtles from climate change? Maybe start by digging around in the arid badlands of western Kansas.Įighty million years ago, this dry, desolate landscape was completely covered by water, teeming with exotic forms of life.Īnd the remnants of that life - embedded in the region’s rocky outcrops - have made western Kansas a magnet for generations of scientists studying long-gone oceans. What they’re finding could teach us both about life in the ancient world and about the future of life in a changing climate.ĬASTLE ROCK BADLANDS, Kan. For generations, scientists seeking to learn about prehistoric ocean life have flocked to a place that’s about as far from the ocean as you can get - dry, dusty western Kansas. ![]()
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