V roce 1935 byl u\u010din\u011bn pozoruhodn\u00fd objev uprost\u0159ed l\u00e1vov\u00fdch \u00fates\u016f u jezera Blue Lake ve st\u00e1t\u011b Washington. Dva p\u00e1ry, kter\u00e9 hledaly zkamen\u011bl\u00e9 d\u0159evo, narazily na velkou d\u00edru. Zv\u011bdav\u00fd Haakon Friele se vydal dovnit\u0159 s o\u010dek\u00e1v\u00e1n\u00edm, \u017ee najde zkamen\u011bl\u00e9 d\u0159evo. M\u00edsto toho v\u0161ak narazil na \u00falomky zkamen\u011bl\u00fdch kost\u00ed, v\u010detn\u011b \u010d\u00e1sti \u010delisti.<\/p>\n\n
V\u011bdci ur\u010dili, \u017ee \u010delist pat\u0159ila miocenn\u00edmu nosoro\u017eci zn\u00e1m\u00e9mu jako Diceratherium, vzd\u00e1len\u00e9mu p\u0159\u00edbuzn\u00e9mu modern\u00edch nosoro\u017ec\u016f. S\u00e1drov\u00e1 forma vytvo\u0159en\u00e1 v roce 1948 odhalila v\u00fdrazn\u00fd tvar velk\u00e9ho, nafouklho nosoro\u017ece le\u017e\u00edc\u00edho na z\u00e1dech. St\u011bny dutiny z pol\u0161t\u00e1\u0159ov\u00e9ho \u010dedi\u010de nazna\u010duj\u00ed, \u017ee nosoro\u017eec byl poh\u0159ben v m\u011blk\u00e9 t\u016fni nebo potoce, kdy\u017e p\u0159es n\u011bj p\u0159et\u00e9kala l\u00e1va.<\/p>\n\n
Po mili\u00f3nech let l\u00e1va vychladla a poh\u0159bila nosoro\u017ece. Spokansk\u00e9 z\u00e1plavy, s\u00e9rie katastrofick\u00fdch povodn\u00ed, z\u00e1zra\u010dn\u011b vyhlodaly d\u00edru na zadn\u00edm konci zv\u00ed\u0159ete a odhalily jej o 13 000 let pozd\u011bji.<\/p>\n\n
V posledn\u00edch letech se fos\u00edlie nosoro\u017ece u Blue Lake stala c\u00edlem nad\u0161enc\u016f paleontologie. N\u00e1v\u0161t\u011bvn\u00edci si mohou pronajmout veslice, aby se dostali na severn\u00ed konec jezera Blue Lake, a vy\u0161plhat po strm\u00e9m svahu a\u017e k \u00fapat\u00ed \u00fatesu, kde se nach\u00e1z\u00ed nosoro\u017e\u010d\u00ed d\u00edra.<\/p>\n\n
V\u00fdstup na \u0159\u00edmsu nad d\u00edrou je n\u00e1ro\u010dn\u00fd, ale odm\u011bna stoj\u00ed za to. Uvnit\u0159 jeskyn\u011b mohou n\u00e1v\u0161t\u011bvn\u00edci obdivovat zkamen\u011bl\u00e9 poz\u016fstatky prav\u011bk\u00e9ho nosoro\u017ece Diceratherium. Z\u00e1\u017eitek z prol\u00e9z\u00e1n\u00ed nosoro\u017e\u010d\u00ed z\u00e1d\u011b je opravdu nezapomenuteln\u00fd a nab\u00edz\u00ed pohled do vzd\u00e1len\u00e9 minulosti st\u00e1tu Washington.<\/p>\n\n
Fos\u00edlie nosoro\u017ece u Blue Lake je cenn\u00fd v\u011bdeck\u00fd expon\u00e1t, kter\u00fd prolil sv\u011btlo na d\u00e1vn\u00fd ekosyst\u00e9m severoz\u00e1padn\u00edho Pacifiku. P\u0159\u00edtomnost nosoro\u017ece v t\u00e9to oblasti poukazuje na teplej\u0161\u00ed a vlh\u010d\u00ed klima b\u011bhem mioc\u00e9nu. Fos\u00edlie tak\u00e9 poskytuje d\u016fkazy o dramatick\u00fdch geologick\u00fdch ud\u00e1lostech, kter\u00e9 formovaly krajinu st\u00e1tu Washington po miliony let.<\/p>\n\n
Kirk Johnson, \u0159editel Smithsonova n\u00e1rodn\u00edho muzea p\u0159\u00edrodn\u00ed historie, zaznamenal sv\u00e9 v\u00fdzkumy na fos\u00edliemi bohat\u00e9m z\u00e1padn\u00edm pob\u0159e\u017e\u00ed ve sv\u00e9 knize \u201eCruisn\u2019 the Fossil Coastline\u201c. V knize Johnson popisuje sv\u00e9 cesty s um\u011blcem Rayem Trollem a zachycuje kr\u00e1su a fascinaci prav\u011bk\u00e9 minulosti t\u00e9to oblasti.<\/p>\n\n
Fos\u00edlie nosoro\u017ece u Blue Lake je p\u0159ipom\u00ednkou d\u016fle\u017eitosti ochrany a studia na\u0161eho p\u0159\u00edrodn\u00edho d\u011bdictv\u00ed. Prob\u00edhaj\u00edc\u00ed v\u00fdzkum prov\u00e1d\u011bn\u00fd na fosilii pom\u00e1h\u00e1 v\u011bdc\u016fm pochopit v\u00fdvoj nosoro\u017ec\u016f a environment\u00e1ln\u00ed zm\u011bny, kter\u00e9 nastaly ve st\u00e1t\u011b Washington v pr\u016fb\u011bhu \u010dasu.<\/p>\n\n
Fos\u00edlie nosoro\u017ece u Blue Lake je sv\u011bdectv\u00edm o z\u00e1zrac\u00edch p\u0159\u00edrodn\u00edho sv\u011bta. Jeho objev a pr\u016fzkum poskytly cenn\u00e9 poznatky o prav\u011bk\u00e9 historii st\u00e1tu Washington a nad\u00e1le vzbuzuj\u00ed \u00fa\u017eas a zv\u011bdavost n\u00e1v\u0161t\u011bvn\u00edk\u016f z cel\u00e9ho sv\u011bta.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Kdy\u017e nosoro\u017eci putovali st\u00e1tem Washington: Cesta k fos\u00edlii nosoro\u017ece u Blue Lake Objev nosoro\u017ece u Blue Lake V roce 1935 byl u\u010din\u011bn pozoruhodn\u00fd objev uprost\u0159ed l\u00e1vov\u00fdch \u00fates\u016f u jezera Blue…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[138],"tags":[5273,5274,2702,5275,2439,137,5277,5278,5276],"class_list":["post-2621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paleontology","tag-blue-lake-rhino","tag-diceratherium","tag-fossil","tag-miocene","tag-rhino","tag-paleontology","tag-spokane-floods","tag-washington-state","tag-petrified-wood"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lifescienceart.com\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2621","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lifescienceart.com\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lifescienceart.com\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lifescienceart.com\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lifescienceart.com\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2621"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lifescienceart.com\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2621\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2622,"href":"https:\/\/www.lifescienceart.com\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2621\/revisions\/2622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lifescienceart.com\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lifescienceart.com\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lifescienceart.com\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}