Today: a few photos of neat stuff from the Sternberg Museum of Hays, Kansas. These are from my first time through Hays this summer, in June. It's worth a stop. Some of these are from their permanant collection, and some from a travelling exhibit of fossil reconstructions called "T. Rexcetera."

Archelon, mega turtle of the Western Interior Seaway


Pterosaur -- the flying Chihuahua of its day


Plesiosaur (I like how fierce this one looks, and the contrast in colors between its teeth and its bones -- reminds me of the Joker in the Batman movies...)


Big honkin' mosasaur skull (Tylosaurus? I should have taken better notes...)


Yipes! Under the Sternberg's dome, there are reconstructed beasties...


Beautiful slab of Uintacrinus, a stalkless crinoid (more here)


I think this last one is so beautiful that I just switched my desktop background image to it (from the previous image, a geologic map of the Moon).

Labels: chalk, cretaceous, fossils, kansas