Ancient Sea Creatures Spent Years Crossing the Ocean on Rafts, Here's How it Was Possible

1.0Gizmodo Australiahttps://gizmodo.com.auGizmodo Internationalhttps://gizmodo.com.au/author/gizmodointernational/Ancient Sea Creatures Spent Years Crossing the Ocean on Rafts, Here's How it Was Possiblerich600338<blockquote class="wp-embedded-content" data-secret="W6HkcGIZfO"><a href="https://gizmodo.com.au/2020/08/ancient-sea-creatures-spent-years-crossing-the-ocean-on-rafts-heres-how-it-was-possible/">Ancient Sea Creatures Spent Years Crossing the Ocean on Rafts, Here’s How it Was Possible</a></blockquote><iframe sandbox="allow-scripts" security="restricted" src="https://gizmodo.com.au/2020/08/ancient-sea-creatures-spent-years-crossing-the-ocean-on-rafts-heres-how-it-was-possible/embed/#?secret=W6HkcGIZfO" width="600" height="338" title="“Ancient Sea Creatures Spent Years Crossing the Ocean on Rafts, Here’s How it Was Possible” — Gizmodo Australia" data-secret="W6HkcGIZfO" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" class="wp-embedded-content"></iframe><script> /*! This file is auto-generated */ !function(d,l){"use strict";l.querySelector&&d.addEventListener&&"undefined"!=typeof URL&&(d.wp=d.wp||{},d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage||(d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage=function(e){var t=e.data;if((t||t.secret||t.message||t.value)&&!/[^a-zA-Z0-9]/.test(t.secret)){for(var s,r,n,a=l.querySelectorAll('iframe[data-secret="'+t.secret+'"]'),o=l.querySelectorAll('blockquote[data-secret="'+t.secret+'"]'),c=new RegExp("^https?:$","i"),i=0;i<o.length;i++)o[i].style.display="none";for(i=0;i<a.length;i++)s=a[i],e.source===s.contentWindow&&(s.removeAttribute("style"),"height"===t.message?(1e3<(r=parseInt(t.value,10))?r=1e3:~~r<200&&(r=200),s.height=r):"link"===t.message&&(r=new URL(s.getAttribute("src")),n=new URL(t.value),c.test(n.protocol))&&n.host===r.host&&l.activeElement===s&&(d.top.location.href=t.value))}},d.addEventListener("message",d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage,!1),l.addEventListener("DOMContentLoaded",function(){for(var e,t,s=l.querySelectorAll("iframe.wp-embedded-content"),r=0;r<s.length;r++)(t=(e=s[r]).getAttribute("data-secret"))||(t=Math.random().toString(36).substring(2,12),e.src+="#?secret="+t,e.setAttribute("data-secret",t)),e.contentWindow.postMessage({message:"ready",secret:t},"*")},!1)))}(window,document); </script> https://gizmodo.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/31/sea-creatures.png?quality=75&w=600600288The English town of Lyme Regis is part of the Jurassic Coast World Heritage Site. It was here in the 1830s that William Buckland, better known for the discovery of the first dinosaur, Megalosaurus, collected fossils with another pioneering palaeontologist, Mary Anning. One of their discoveries was the remains of fossilised crinoids, sometimes known as […]