Although Kansas is now high and dry, at one time the state, like most of the Midwest, was under water. Until the land finally rose above sea level during the final years of the Late Cretaceous, the area was covered by a succession of oceans whose geologic record is preserved in the sedimentary rock [...]
Sharks and dinosaurs, dinosaurs and sharks, we find them both alien and awe-inspiring, at once utterly inhuman and somehow irresistibly compelling. But forget "Jaws" and "Jurassic Park--"nothing can prepare you for "Sea Monsters: Prehistoric Creatures of the Deep, " an amazing plunge into the Cretac[...]