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The Lost World of Fossil Lake (Hardcover)
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The Lost World of Fossil Lake (Hardcover)
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The landscape of southwestern Wyoming around the ghost town of
Fossil is beautiful but harsh; a dry, high mountain desert with
cool nights and long, cold winters inhabited by a sparse mountain
desert community. But during the early Eocene, more than fifty
million years ago, it was a subtropical lake, surrounded by
volcanoes and forests and teeming with life. Buried within the
sun-baked limestone is spectacular evidence of the lush vegetation
and plentiful fauna of the ancient past, a transitional ecosystem
giving us clues to how North America recovered from a great
extinction event that wiped out dinosaurs and the majority of all
species on the planet. Paleontologists have been conducting
excavations at Fossil Butte for more than 150 years, and with "The
Lost World of Fossil Lake", one of the world's leading experts on
the fossils from this spectacular locality takes readers on a
fascinating journey through the history of the discovery and
exploration of the site. Deftly mixing incredible color photographs
of the remarkable fossils uncovered there with an explanation of
their evolutionary significance, Lance Grande presents an
unprecedented, comprehensive portrait of the site, its treasures,
and what we've learned from them. Grande presents a broad range of
fossilized organisms from Fossil Lake - from single-celled algae to
palm trees to crocodiles - and together they make this long-extinct
community come to life in all its diversity and splendor. A field
guide and atlas round out the book, enabling readers to identify
and classify the majority of the known fossils from the site.
Lavishly produced in full color, "The Lost World of Fossil Lake" is
a stunning reminder of the intellectual and physical beauty of
scientific investigation-and a breathtaking window onto our
planet's long-lost past.
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