“Fossils of Western Washington: a Marine Perspective” Fort Worden Chapel

Free!

Dr. Liz Nesbitt , Univ. of Washington and Burke Museum and David B. Williams Curatorial Associate, Burke Museum

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-authors Dr. Liz Nesbitt and David B. Williams as they discuss this amazing array of past life, which is featured in their new book, “Spirit Whales and Sloth Tales: Fossils in Washington State”.

Find all the details at https://ptmsc.org/event/lecture-fossils-of-western-washington/