It took 2 years for researchers in deep caves below the surface to uncover this remarkable fossil.
The surface to uncover this remarkable fossil. complete darkness. ice waterfalls, muddy passageways, and crushing squeezes. Spiders and bats. leaping off ledges and into the uncharted. For a fossil, how far would you go? We reached our limits—and then some—during a two-year retrieval mission that lasted nearly sixty hours in a cave beneath the surface. … Read more