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21043
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While this article cannot mention all the fossil sites in the state, it does serve as a brief guide to some of the more interesting ones. Among those listed with a brief description are the Triassic reptiles of the Research Triangle; Cretaceous Carolina: Traces of the dinosaurs; and Megalodon cruising grounds.
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24504
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Fossil hunting is popular in Eastern North Carolina; many participants find the remains of sea creatures of the prehistoric sea that once covered the area. This article discusses the best places for fossil hunting and how to identify finds.
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35731
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Upton revealed that distant history could be touched, literally and figuratively, in Aurora’s Fossil Museum. Visitors could get up close and personal with eras from eons past in a fossil collection that contained whale vertebrae, sharks’ teeth, and soil from millions of years ago.
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44784
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The museum traces its beginnings to phosphate discovered on the southern shores of the Pamlico in the 1950s. In 1965, Texas Gulf Sulfur Company established a mining operation in the area in 1965 and in the process noticed corals which they found strange in eastern North Carolina. Requesting assistance from the Smithsonian, that institution identified the mining area as one of the richest fossil locations on the Atlantic coast. In cooperation with the town of Aurora, a museum was established in 1976.
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