Saturday Speaker Series — Spirit Whales and Sloth Tales: Fossils of Washington State
Sat, Nov 09
|Old Redmond Schoolhouse
Please note this is an in person program. A recording will be available for one month following the event.
Time & Location
Nov 09, 2024, 10:30 AM
Old Redmond Schoolhouse, 16600 NE 80th St, Redmond, WA 98052, USA
About the Event
No matter where you wander in Washington, you are never very far from the past and the evidence of the plants and animals that came before. You can find trilobites near the Idaho border, primitive horses on the Columbia Plateau, exquisite flowers in Republic, giant bird tracks near Bellingham, and curious bear-like beasts on the Olympic Peninsula. With abundant and well-exposed rock layers, Washington has fossils dating from Ice Age mammals only 12,000 years old back to marine invertebrates more than 500 million years old.
Join co-author David B. Williams as he discusses this amazing array of past life, which is featured in Spirit Whales and Sloth Tales: Fossils in Washington State. David will provide the background on what inspired him and co-author Dr. Elizabeth Nesbitt to write the first book ever on fossils in the state, why they chose the fossils they did, and some of the new science…
