# fossilfriday

Where is this fossil now?
discovered in antiquity by Greeks in Pleistocene peat fossil beds at Megalopolis & placed on acropolis of Nichoria, discovered in 1970s by Ripp Rapp/Minnesota Messinia Expedition, misplaced until 1997, described in my

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2022-04-01

Ancient Greeks visualized giants and larger than life heroes when they discovered fossil femurs of extinct megafauna
Paleontologist Ana Pinto with mammoth femur from Asturias Spain

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2021-08-21

"brings together myth, art, geology& paleontology in a convincing manner. Mayor's chronicles show that people of Greek and Roman times had a broad understanding of fossils as organic remains of extinct organisms"-- American Scientist

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2020-05-29