Spirit Whales and Sloth Tales
Nesbitt, Elizabeth A. / Williams, David B.
From trilobites near the Idaho border and primitive horses on the Columbia Plateau to giant bird tracks near Bellingham and curious bear-like beasts on the Olympic Peninsula, fossils across Washington State are filled with clues of past life on Earth. With abundant and well-exposed rock layers, the state has fossils dating from Ice Age mammals only 12, 000 years old back to marine invertebrates more than 500 million years old. In Spirit Whales...