In a trench behind a west Starkville, Miss., apartment complex, a team of paleontologists led by University of New Mexico post-doctoral researcher James Witts, was gathering handfuls of 66 million-year-old fossils. From fossilized molds of snail shells to evidence of ammonites, the group hopes their finds may contribute to a picture of marine life in the oceans covering what is now Northeast Mississippi millions of years ago; and how that life changed after a mass extinction event wiped out 70 percent of life on earth. (Source: Columbus Dispatch 08/14/20) https://www.cdispatch.com/news/article.asp?aid=82941
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