More than 65 million years ago, Kansas was covered by a vast, shallow ocean that stretched from Utah to Minnesota and from the Gulf of Mexico beyond the Arctic Circle. This ocean was home to a variety of marine animals, including giant clams, squid, sharks, bony fish, turtles, plesiosaurs, mosasaurs, pteranodons, and even birds with teeth!
Michael J. Everhart, assistant curator of paleontology at the Sternberg Museum of Natural History and author of "Oceans of Kansas," gives a presentation and answers questions about this fascinating natural history.
In addition to /"Oceans of Kansas/", Mike is the author of /"Sea Monsters: Prehistoric Creatures of the Deep/" and more than 50 articles describing the Smoky Hill Chalk fossils, including the naming of a new species. of a marine reptile (mosasaur) extinct in Kansas: Tylosaurus kansasensis. He was a lead advisor on the 2007 IMAX National Geographic film /"Sea Monsters/" and his findings have been featured in five made-for-television documentaries on the History and Discovery channels. He is the creator and webmaster of www.oceansofkansas.com.
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