Christian Kammerer, research curator of paleontology at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences, knows more about one version of our state\u2019s natural world than almost anyone \u2014 a version from before the ocean touched our coast, before it was even part of North America. He lives here with us, but studies life that vanished millions of years before the first human ever looked to the heavens.<\/p>\n
\u201cAs a paleontologist, I have to think in terms of deep time,\u201d Kammerer says. \u201cNot over the course of years or centuries, but over millions and millions of years.\u201d<\/p>\n
Check out Eleanor Spicer Rice\u2019s latest \u201cNorth Carolina, Naturally\u201d effort for Our State Magazine.<\/p>\n
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