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奇怪的化石是什么1891年,古生物学家欧文·巴伯走到美国内布拉斯加州西部的怀特河荒地。他在那里发现一块化石。欧文·巴伯感到十分困惑。这块化石2米高,呈螺旋状。这是他以前没见过的东西。它是什么?他想到很久以前这里曾是一片湖泊,那它是不是巨树的根系化石呢?值得庆幸的是,与他同时代的人有不同的看法。爱德华·德林克·科普和特奥多尔·福斯发现,这螺旋形的化石不是一个古生物遗迹。它们是充满了沙子和淤泥的古老的洞穴。螺旋形的化石底部有一种古老的啮齿动物的骨头化石。
What was the strange fossil? In 1891, paleontologist Irving Barber walked to the White River heath in western Nebraska. He found a fossil there. Owen Barber felt very confused. The fossil is 2 meters tall and spirally shaped. This is something he has not seen before. What was it? He thought of a long time ago here was a lake, it is not a giant tree root fossils it? Fortunately, with his contemporaries have different views. Edward Delink Coppo and Teodor Foss found that the spiral fossil was not a paleontological monument. They are ancient caves filled with sand and silt. At the bottom of the spiral fossil is an ancient rodent bones fossil.