Scientists seeking to learn about prehistoric oceans have flocked to an unlikely place: western Kansas. And today, the fossils embedded in these Great Plains could hold clues about the future of life.

Scientists seeking to learn about prehistoric oceans have flocked to an unlikely place: western Kansas. And now, the fossils embedded in these Great Plains could hold clues about the future of life.

Once you’ve done that, begin working your way up. Mike Everhart of Oceans of Kansas Paleontology described the method while out looking for fossils in a road cut east of Wichita on U.S. 400.

Oceans of Kansas. Daughter, remember how you love Kansas, because of Dorothy, and I told you that millions of years ago. Kansas was underwater --the whole state an ocean full of fish and seaweed, ...