70 million years in the making: Savage Ancient Seas displayed at Museum of the Rockies
A look at an ancient underwater world
If you are itching to get out of the house, the Museum of the Rockies in Bozeman has an exhibit that is 70 million years in the making.
By: Matt Elwell
and last updated 2021-02-07 12:23:09-05
BOZEMAN â If you are itching to get out of the house, the Museum of the Rockies in Bozeman has an exhibit that is 70 million years in the making. Savage Ancient Seas is now on display at the museum through May 2
nd. The exhibit features marine reptiles and carnivorous fish in a way you might not be able to imagine. Savage Ancient Seas gives you a look at an ancient underwater world with more than 30 prehistoric casts and several real fossils.
70 million years in the making: Savage Ancient Seas displayed at Museum of the Rockies
A look at an ancient underwater world
If you are itching to get out of the house, the Museum of the Rockies in Bozeman has an exhibit that is 70 million years in the making.
By: Matt Elwell
and last updated 2021-02-04 17:02:42-05
BOZEMAN â If you are itching to get out of the house, the Museum of the Rockies in Bozeman has an exhibit that is 70 million years in the making.
Savage Ancient Seas is now on display at the museum through May 2.
The exhibit features marine reptiles and carnivorous fish in a way you might not be able to imagine.
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BOZEMAN, Mont.- A new exhibit at the Museum of the Rockies hopes to take you back in time to a place where you can take a swim in the âSavage Ancient Seas.â
The new rotating exhibit includes more than 30 prehistoric casts and some real fossils found at the bottom of the Western Interior Seaway, a shallow sea across North America around 70 million years ago.
âOne of the cool things about the exhibit is that we can see a lot of these animals in three-dimensions, their skeletons are mounted so that you can walk under them and around them and it really gives you the feel of what it might be like to be swimming in the water and having to encounter one of these creatures,â Dr. John Scannella, the John R. Horner curator of paleontology at the museum said.
The center of the North American continent was once an ocean. That was a few years ago - oh, maybe 70 million years or so. The Museum of the Rockies is setting up a new aquarium display that will be filled with ancient fossils from the Savage Ancient Seas.
You might wonder about the title of the exhibit. Just take a look at the teeth on some of the fossils (photo above). Savage seems like the right description to me. The aquarium will not be filled with water and the fossils will be suspended from the ceiling. There are over 30 casts and real fossils, many from the Western Interior Sea.