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39461
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The Aurora Fossil Museum was founded in 1976 and opened in 1978 as a non-profit science education resource center, This article features the museum and its outreach in the community.
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40908
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The Aurora Fossil Museum, containing fossils from around the state and world, is a day trip for many North Carolinians. Collections also drawing audiences from around the world include the Shark Room, containing a cast of the most complete set of giant whale shark teeth in America.
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39394
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The festivities of the Aurora Fossil Festival include a parade, a 5K run, great food, live music, dancing, lawn mower pulls, car cruise-in, and games. Groups such as the North Carolina Fossil Club and the Special Friends of the Aurora Fossil Museum will display their personal collections. There will be interesting lectures on fossils and a tour of the neighboring PotashCorp-Aurora facilities. Last but not least, a live fossil auction followed by the highly anticipated drawing of the 2017 C. megalodon raffle tooth.
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37316
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The focal point on Main Street for four decades has become the main attraction anew through additions to its facility, in time for the annual fossil festival. In its buildings are the gift shop and learning center. Outside are mounds for intrepid fossil hunters. The boon for the museum and Aurora year around: visitors from all fifty states, as well as faraway countries and continents.