Everywhere in the world ... dig 'monsters' everywhere

These sites are considered the mecca of fossil hunters, where many generations of monsters come out.

1. Lightning Ridge - quarry of gems and monsters

The name Lightining Ridge - The Hill of Thunder - has come from a creepy origin. One day in the past, a farmer and 200 dead sheep were found dead at the hands of "Thor." Lightining Ridge is a deserted and barren site in Australia, but world famous is a high quality opal (cat's eye or cat's eye); At the same time, it used to provide archaeologists with the rarest, most beautiful and most valuable fossils in the world.

View of Lightning Ridge - (photo: AUSSIE TOWNS)

These beautiful fossils are found in the "mecca" of these gems and monsters - (photo: ASTRALIA INDEPENDENT).

The prehistoric creatures found in this quarry are diverse: from small "monsters" of the Cambrian period to giant dinosaurs, ancestors of mammals, crocodiles, sea reptiles and countless others. Weird plants. Most prominently, in June 1919, a whole group of Cretaceous dinosaurs of Fostoria dhimbangunmal was discovered in the state of remains instead of fossils becoming fossils, by a strange process called "opal." chemistry ".

2. Somerset coast in England

The rocks in the coastal area of ​​Somerset County (England) mainly come from the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods, the period when dinosaurs dominated the globe. Therefore, countless prehistoric monsters have been revealed here, fossilized in ancient rocks. This is also the "mecca" of fossil hunters.

Somerset Coast - (photo: HOLLIDAY COTTAGES)

The highlight of the past year is the 200 million-year-old fossil of a sea reptile that shares many similarities with whales - dolphins today are discovered in a quarry on the Doniford Bay. This "monster" study is published in the Geological Journal. More recently, a "monster" of the same family was found by two pet dogs of a psychiatric nurse on the Somerset coast when walking with their owner. The new specimen is 65 million years old.

3. "Whale valley" between . deserts

Wadi Al-Hitan whale valley is located only 150 km southwest of Cairo (Egypt), which is recognized by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site. Hundreds of ancient marine fossils have been found, including the earliest archaeoceti or recently a "monster" of the metamorphosis whale from foot-to-head amphibian to whale. nowadays.

The view is unique in the "whale valley" - (photo: UNESCO).

The image of sea monsters lying on the sand hill is not strange here - (photo: EGYPT INDEPENDENT).

Whale valley is also famous in that it seems to bring the "magic" of Egyptian mummification. The specimens here are surprisingly intact, even some parachutes have died hundreds, tens of millions of years still preserve . stomach food. In addition to whales, this desert region also hosts a series of sharks, crocodiles, sea turtles, and ancient chasing fish.