Friday, February 19, 2010

Giant Fish Uncovered by Leoti's Bonner Family!

PLEASE bear with me on this posting! This is the first time that I have transfered an article from email to blog. It may be a bit rocky. There is a portion where you can click to read more. Click on it and you will read an amazing story on the Bonners. If the post is a mess, please contact me and I will email the article to you.

This was in www.kansas.com from the Wichita Eagle.

Enjoy!

VLE-B


Ancient giant fish uncovered in Kansas
By ROY WENZL AND BECCY TANNER


In Science magazine this week, paleontologists are announcing the discovery of a new genus of ancient giant fish, uncovered in the chalk deposits of Kansas, Britain and elsewhere. And with that discovery comes the story of the relentless Kansas family that solved a fish science mystery.
The scientists named the new genus after the Bonner family of Leoti, Kan., who found the breakthrough specimen, a family who for decades hunted fossils in the bone-rich Niobrara chalk to relieve the grief over the death of their mother.
Bonnerichthys the scientists are calling it; and it’s a lot of fish for them to love: 20 to 25 feet long, eyes six inches wide a mouth that could have swallowed the eight children of the Bonner family in one or two gulps.


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Ancient giant fish uncovered in Kansas
By ROY WENZL AND BECCY TANNER


In Science magazine this week, paleontologists are announcing the discovery of a new genus of ancient giant fish, uncovered in the chalk deposits of Kansas, Britain and elsewhere. And with that discovery comes the story of the relentless Kansas family that solved a fish science mystery.
The scientists named the new genus after the Bonner family of Leoti, Kan., who found the breakthrough specimen, a family who for decades hunted fossils in the bone-rich Niobrara chalk to relieve the grief over the death of their mother.
Bonnerichthys the scientists are calling it; and it’s a lot of fish for them to love: 20 to 25 feet long, eyes six inches wide a mouth that could have swallowed the eight children of the Bonner family in one or two gulps.


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Ancient giant fish uncovered in Kansas
By ROY WENZL AND BECCY TANNER


In Science magazine this week, paleontologists are announcing the discovery of a new genus of ancient giant fish, uncovered in the chalk deposits of Kansas, Britain and elsewhere. And with that discovery comes the story of the relentless Kansas family that solved a fish science mystery.
The scientists named the new genus after the Bonner family of Leoti, Kan., who found the breakthrough specimen, a family who for decades hunted fossils in the bone-rich Niobrara chalk to relieve the grief over the death of their mother.
Bonnerichthys the scientists are calling it; and it’s a lot of fish for them to love: 20 to 25 feet long, eyes six inches wide a mouth that could have swallowed the eight children of the Bonner family.


Ancient giant fish uncovered in Kansas
By ROY WENZL AND BECCY TANNER


In Science magazine this week, paleontologists are announcing the discovery of a new genus of ancient giant fish, uncovered in the chalk deposits of Kansas, Britain and elsewhere. And with that discovery comes the story of the relentless Kansas family that solved a fish science mystery.
The scientists named the new genus after the Bonner family of Leoti, Kan., who found the breakthrough specimen, a family who for decades hunted fossils in the bone-rich Niobrara chalk to relieve the grief over the death of their mother.
Bonnerichthys the scientists are calling it; and it’s a lot of fish for them to love: 20 to 25 feet long, eyes six inches wide a mouth that could have swallowed the eight children of the Bonner family in one or two gulps.


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1 comment:

  1. Lynn,
    Theres a artical on the hutchinsonnews.com on this thats about the same as you posted. But I thought it was very interesting also. To know that it has conections to Leoti. Good work.
    Carolyn

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