Friday, 24. January 2003
Topic: - on January 24, 2003 at 1:35:50 PM CET
325-Million-Year-Old Fossil Found in Ark
University of Arkansas students unearthed the world's largest fossil of the squid-like, straight-shelled cephalopod at a city intersection as cars and trucks zipped by them.
Freshman Sarah Kee and senior Kevin Morgan made the discovery while digging along a drainage ditch for ammonoid fossils, a spiral-shelled subclass of cephalopods. A cephalopod is a marine mollusk that has a distinct head with suckers attached to it, highly developed eyes and varying numbers of arms.
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