So what do the capital city of Germany and dinosaurs have in common? Not much, except here in the middle of Nevada. We are spending the first night of our road trip at Berlin-Ichthyosaur State Park. It’s the site of a ghost mining town named Berlin and… it has one of the largest intact ichthyosaur fossils in the world. Incredibly, the Great Basin used to be underwater a very, very long time ago. It had all sorts of aquatic creatures that are now preserved under layers of limestone.
The big guy in the picture who wants to give me a kiss grew to 60 feet long and would probably have considered me a light snack. Luckily, he (or she?) lived 250 million years ago during the Triassic Period so I don’t have to worry.
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