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All, I hope you will pardon this shameless bit of self promotion. As you may know, my book, "Oceans of Kansas - A Natural History of the Western Interior Sea" was published by the Indiana University Press earlier this year. It is mostly about paleontology, and more specifically, the fossils from the Late Cretaceous Smoky Hill Chalk in western Kansas, but also includes a lot of the history, blunders, and honest mistakes committed by the famous and not-so-famous paleontologists who were the first to collect and describe Kansas fossils in the 1870s. Many paleontologists are unaware of the historical (and current!) discoveries made in Kansas paleontology... including Cope's infamous head-on-the-wrong-end /Elasmosaurus/, the first giant pteranodons, huge bony fish, turtles the size of small automobiles, previously unknown toothed birds, short-necked plesiosaurs and thousands of mosasaur specimens. I recently did a 30 minute interview on a New England public radio station (WICN) regarding the book. The program (Inquiry) aired in December, and is now up and running on the web as an MP3 file (FREE for download)... http://www.wicn.org/programs/archive.htm#inquiry If you are considering downloading it, be aware that it is a big file (14 MB). It will run on your Windows Media Player. The interview covers about the first 2/3s of the book I will be recording a second interview later this month. The interviewer (Mark Lynch) did a great job with the questions, but we just ran out of time. I expect the second half of the interview will air on WICN in February or March. Regards, Mike Everhart Adjunct Curator of Paleontology Sternberg Museum of Natural History Fort Hays State University, Hays, KS www.oceansofkansas.com
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