A journey back in time to our geological past can be more exciting than anywhere else in the world: Mistelbach was 500 meters under water, in Kalksburg 20 meter long sharks were hunted in the warm tropical sea. Fossils in the collections of the Natural History Museum Vienna provide important information about the climate history of Europe.
Sun, palm trees and a fine sandy beach. When clouds of fog, drizzle and November gray cover the land in colorless dullness, many escape this meteorological gloom by traveling to a remote, sunny beach. But a journey through time into Vienna’s geological past also brings an unexpected spectrum of colors into gray everyday life: In the historical Miocene – that is, 14 to 20 million years ago – the area around Vienna lay in a tropical sea.
Source: Krone
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