Oceans of Kansas, Michael J. Everhart
Oceans of Kansas, Michael J. Everhart
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Oceans of Kansas
A Natural History of the Western Interior Sea

Author: Michael J. Everhart

Narrator: Tom Perkins

Unabridged: 14 hr 50 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 10/25/2022

Synopsis

Revised, updated, and expanded with the latest interpretations and fossil discoveries, the second edition of Oceans of Kansas adds new twists to the fascinating story of the vast inland sea that engulfed central North America during the Age of Dinosaurs. Giant sharks, marine reptiles called mosasaurs, pteranodons, and birds with teeth all flourished in and around these shallow waters. Their abundant and well-preserved remains were sources of great excitement in the scientific community when first discovered in the 1860s and continue to yield exciting discoveries 150 years later. Michael J. Everhart vividly captures the history of these startling finds over the decades and re-creates in unforgettable detail these animals from our distant past and the world in which they lived—above, within, and on the shores of America's ancient inland sea.

About Michael J. Everhart

Michael J. Everhart, adjunct curator of paleontology at the Sternberg Museum of Natural History in Hays, Kansas, is an expert on the Late Cretaceous of western Kansas. He is the creator of the award-winning "Oceans of Kansas" paleontology website at oceansofkansas.com. He lives in Derby, Kansas.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Mike on June 25, 2021

The "flat space" between the Appalachian Mountains and the Rocky Mountains is both over looked and a mystery to most folks, including geologists. I believe it was the legendary paleontologist Anita Harris who said you can "do the geology of Midwest at 70 mhp". Dr. Harris was rarely wrong about much,......more

Goodreads review by Tim on May 15, 2023

Beautifully illustrated, thoroughly researched, and very accessible popular and academic work on when Kansas was covered by an ocean. Specifically, it is on a 5-million-year span of time during the Late Cretaceous, the time when the Smoky Hill Chalk was deposited on the bottom of the Western Interio......more

Goodreads review by The Inquisitive Biologist on July 28, 2020

Why is Kansas littered with fossils of sharks and marine reptiles? Highly detailed and richly illustrated, Oceans of Kansas is the definitive reference work on the Western Interior Sea and its prehistoric inhabitants. See my full review at [URL not allowed]......more

Goodreads review by John on March 14, 2023

About 85 million years ago, there was a vast shallow inland sea ranging from the Gulf of Mexico to the Arctic Ocean and Hudson Bay. Monstrous creatures lived in this ocean, died, were covered in chalky detritus and were eventually discovered as Western Kansas became settled by farmers. The author is......more

Goodreads review by Barbara on February 19, 2024

Extremely organized and detailed I really appreciated the amount of data and the history of the discoveries. I was less enthusiastic about the constant barrage of scientific names of the organisms, without some illustrations of the creatures. So many bones & so few illustrations of the live forms! Ap......more

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