20-14 million years ago
Time travel: When Vienna really was “on the sand”
A journey through time into our geological past can be more exciting than any place in the world: Mistelbach was 500 meters under water, in Kalksburg 20 meter long sharks hunted in the tropical warm sea. Fossils in the collections of the Natural History Museum Vienna provide important clues to the climatic history of Europe.
Sun, palm trees and a fine sandy beach. When wafts of fog, drizzle and November grey shroud the country in colorless blandness, many escape this meteorological dreariness with trips to a distant sunny beach. But a journey back in time to Vienna's geological past also brings an unexpected spectrum of colors to the gray everyday life: because in the Miocene epoch - 14 to 20 million years ago - the Vienna area was located in a tropical sea.
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