Visitors may think the fossilized sea creatures seem a bit fishy when first visiting the land-locked Fick Fossil and History Museum. That is until they learn they are actually the remains of strange and unique creatures that populated the oceans millions of years ago. Western Kansas was located at the bottom of the ancient Western Interior Seaway. The huge sea creatures that lived and died in that waterway left their remains in the chalky, rock formations of the high Kansas plains. Early in the 20th-century, Ernest and Vi Fick began…
