Wilde Welten der Urzeit

Insights into the history of the earth What did the world look like in earlier times? This book invites to an expedition through the history of the earth. The reader experiences highlight-like how a small area on our planet (today's Rhineland-Palatinate) changed in the course of time. The time travel starts 400 million years ago in the tropical depths of the Devonian Sea, ... ... stops at giant amphibians in desert-like landscapes, visits the manatees of the Mainz Basin, passes the riparian forests of the ancient Rhine and finally ends in the current Ice Age. The focus is on points in time for which the Natural History Museum in Mainz has internationally outstanding collections. It is hard to imagine that all these scenarios took place in one and the same place - only at different times. Nowhere else is the paleontological, geological and biological past, present and future of Rhineland-Palatinate presented in a comparable way. And the protagonists are tusked elephant, woolly rhinoceros and bear dog.