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Life After Dinosaurs
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Uintathere Drinking From Lake
At a Wyoming lake, huge uintatheres step out of the shade
to drink, startling early relatives of
today's horses. Dinosaurs were long gone, extinct for
almost 15 million years.
Fifty-two million years ago, Fossil Lake spread for
miles across western Wyoming. The wet,
warm climate was a lot like today's Florida
Everglades - fish, plants, birds, insects and mammals
flourished.
Want to learn more about fossils? Go to the lab!
Click here to go deeper into Fossil Lake
Painting by Charles Knight. Field Museum photo Geo-CK-46.1T, by
John Weinstein.
