If, before entering, you happen to read the signage at the Fossil Dig Site on the Dinosaur Trail, you will discover that the material through which you are about to search for fossils is of the coastal plain and not of the Piedmont. The gray, coarse material in the Dig Site was shipped in from a phosphate mine near Aurora, NC and at one time was on the bottom of the ocean when that part of North Carolina was underRead more
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Marine Life in Durham?
On July 12th sharks, stingrays, porpoises, whales, sea urchins and other marine life were discovered at the Museum – at least in part. Scores of kids, and yes, their parents too, got down and dirty in the “Fossil Pit” digging for fossils along the Museum’s future Dinosaur Trail. Thousands of shark’s teeth, whale and porpoise bones, sea urchin spines, crab claws and other marine fossils were unearthed, packed into bags and carried off home by the many happy participants inRead more