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You are almost out of time to sign up for the October 16 paleontology workshop for teachers in West Alabama. This is a one-day field workshop, inexpensive, but valuable.. You will get lots of free stuff, including the fantastic book "Lost worlds in Alabama rocks." you will spend the day learning about interactions among fossil species, that we can learn about by looking at the fossils they leave behind. West Alabama is a great place to learn about this because Cretaceous fossils are diverse, abundant, and show many traces of their interactions.

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So the fossil field workshop for teachers yesterday went really well. The weather was perfect. One of the teachers found a turtle femur. A fossil femur 82.5 million years old. People found fossils of sharks, fish, mosasaurs, oysters, ammonites, shrimp burrows, teredo worms (actually a kind of wood-boring clam),and lots more things. Wish you had gone? Just send me your email address and tell me why you're sending that and I will put you on the list to be reminded next year.