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By Rebecca Brite
Badlands...
Rolling, grassy plains broken by
buttes and mesas of bare bedrock.
Chalkpink and yeliow and white,
mottled with black and gray.
The dark spots are caused by many
things, but to experienced eyes search
ing the buttes for patterns of color,
certain markings signify the remains of
creatures not seen on this earth' tor
more than 100 million years.
From Aug. 26 to Sept. 4, a young
Lincoln paleontologist (fossil hunter)
visited this scene with his partner.
Three weeks later, surrounded by
warmth and by people softly talking late
at night in a downtown coffeeshop, Greg
' Brown explained what drew him and
Bruce Bailey to the chalk' badlands
western Kansas for 10 days of grueling
work in unseasonably cold, late summer
weather.
It wasn't money, he said, though he
claims they uncovered specimens worth
more than $12,000. including a rare
fossilized pterodactyl, a winged reptile.
No, he said, they will donate their finds
to schools or museums and will sell only
enough "inferior" specimens to pay for
their trip.
Discoveries 'not really news'
Nor are their discoveries really news
in the scientific community, Brown said.
Each geological find adds to man's
picture of the past but, he added, the
products of his recent "dig" will not
change that picture dramatically.
He declined an offer of coffee and
ordered lemonade.
Why then? Why the days of -work
miles from any town, moving tons of
rock in weather so cold that "even the
rattlesnakes wouldn't come out"?
"For knowledge's sake," Brown said.
"For science. I realize it sounds a little
hackneyed, but it's the only reason I can
.give.
"To know where we came from, and
pcfnopo tO kfiOw wnei'e wy'ft; ju!iij,
even if we can't stop it..."
In a world which may be more than
four billion years old, the chalk badlands
of Kansas' Gove, Logan and Trego
counties are fairly young. -
They date from the Cretaceous
Period, 65 to 136 million years ago (man
may be, at most, about 7 million years
old), when a shallow inland sea belted
North American from Canada to what is
now the Gulf of Mexico.
Fragile creatures
The water held much life, and the
fossilized remains of fish and seagoing
reptiles are too numerous to count in the
soft rock, Brown said.
But the rulers of the air, the
pterodactyls, entered the water only to
feed on incautious fish. These fragile,
highly specialized creatures glided,
rather than flew, on bat-iiko wings. If
their membranous remains arc found at
ail, they often appear only as discolored
daily nebraskan
patches in the otherwise-pastel chalk.
Brown said he and Bailey were lucky
enough to uncover an entire "arm" and
part "of the body of one of these
featherless pre-birds: bone, cartilage
and leathery wing, preserved molecule
by molecule in dark, flinty minerals.
The men, both of whom have yet to
complete their undergraduate work in
geology, spent almost three days
digging out the fossil, encasing the top
side in plaster and preparing the
specimen with chemicals.
. Largest winged animal
.Brown said . the wiogsRread pf the
living animal would have been more
than 12 feet.
"It was just a baby," he added.
"5$omb of that,genus (Pteranadon) were
3 bici as 25J$p " tho. .largest winged
animal ever known.
Slowly sipping his drink, far away
from the badlands, Brown discussed the
implications of his work in the light of
modern concerns with ecology, environ
ment and extinction.
"Life is always just one thing, no
matter what form it takes," he said. "To
understand what we are, we must
understand everything." He illustrated
his remarks, using a ballpoint pen on a
placemat.
"Pterodactyls weren't very success
ful; they were only around about 100
million years." He quickly sketched a
w-lnged figure on the paper mat. "The
reasons why they died, and why they
lived, -ire fabulous and unfathomable.
"It's the same with man. If tempera
tures had not been constant 40 million
years ago, if numberless other factors
had not been what they were, we
wouldn't be here."
Too specialized
Another drawing grew as he talked:
vertebrae, ribs, skull, tail and fins.
"The most important thing to realize,
1 guess, is that we can apply thi3 " he
gestured " to ourselves, but it doesn't
really help us, Man is the most powerful
CAiifiCtiGri iOTCG On 6ai"ih, but uieio'S
nothing ho can do to control his own
extinction."
He placed the placemat aside.
"When the first paieontoligists came
to the Kansas badlands in 1871," he
said, "they saw thousands of buffalo.
By the second expedition in 1876, all the
herd was gone.
"The only things left out there now
are the bedrock and the canyons, and
the animals strong enough to stand out
invasion or adapt to our ways."
Brown finished his lemonade, then
shrugged into his jacket and rose. It was
2 a.m. The placemat, covered with
weird markings, lay crookedly on the
table.
"They were too highly specialized,"
ho said, glancing at his drawings, "and
go arc we."
The waitress came to clean up,
brunhmg creatures, cups and crumbs
into a brown plastic bin,
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