Underground Heritage
Have you ever looked at the subway walls like museum windows? Every day, we pass through marble and granite stoves without seeing that there are traces of creatures living hundreds of millions of years ago. Metro is not only a path from point A to point B, but also an invisible portal to the geological past.
We’ll try to figure out how the fossils ended up in the walls of the subway, which organisms lived long before the dinosaurs, and why the Moscow and Petrenburg subway could be considered the most unusual museum on the move!
To understand the true value of these findings, you need to know their origin. Why are these fossils even here? How did they get into the marble and the granite of the station? To that end, a separate page with a short history of paleontology was created.
Final stage: Archival of fossils. It gathers the most common fossils that can be found at subway stations. It’s a visual knowledge base: short descriptions, photographs, location.
Now you know that right under the ground — on platforms and in transitions — you can see traces of prehistoric life. After this Longrid, you’ll look at the subway with very different eyes and perhaps go on your own to look for fossils.
