17th
September
2007
GeoChallenge #11
posted in GSCI100, GeoChallenge, geology |The Challenge: Visit the Sternberg Museum, or another natural history museum of your choice (e.g., Fick Fossil Museum, Denver Museum of Nature and Science, etc.). Have yourself photographed in front of one of the geology displays. Write a paragraph about something new that you learned about geology from the exhibits there.
ok, so i went to the Sternberg Museum and i a got a picture of me infront of the TYLOSAURUS!!!!! It was the biggest fossil there, in length; well i thought so. It once swam through this region of the state. He was a 30 foot loong marine lizard!!! He had very sharp teeth and would use them on other marine life like sharks, and other boney fish. But i guess he got what was coming to him because, he fell victim to a shark attack!! It truly a battle for the SUPREMACY of the sea!!!
A few weeks ago I went to the Sternberg Museum and took a picture of myself infront of the Xiphactinus this fossil is also known as the fish within a fish. I picked this fossil because i have always thought it was very interesting.This skeleton was found 50 miles away from hays and was discovered by George Sternberg. They believe that the Xiphactinus died before digesting the fish inside (Gelagous), hence the reason it is was visible inside. The processes of removing the skeleton was very difficult. They had to under cut the bottom and dig a trench underneath to remove it without disturbing the form. After removing the skeleton George added his signature texture and color around the skeleton and it was diplayed in the museum in Autumn of 1952.
The Greensburg meteorite is being housed in the Sternberg museum while Greensburg rebuilds form the tornado. The meteorite was in the Big Well Museum, which housed the famous 1,000 pound meteorite unearthed in the area in 1949. The meteorite has traveled as an exhibit lately, but will be housed back in Greensburg in the future.
A few weeks ago, a classmate and I went to Sternberg museum. There were so many exhibts but that one that stuck out the most to me, was in the fossil section. It was called a Fish-within-A Fish. It surprised me that something so big and intersting could have survived from such a long time ago.
Me and katie another student in class went to the sternburg museam. The fossil that stuck out the most to be was the Bison Latifrons Partial Cranium. The cranium and the horns where huge. The bison where bigger when they migrated to north america 200000 years ago using the Bering land Bridge. As time went on the bison began to shrink in size do to the climatic and vegetation changes in the late pleistocene glaciation