Aurora Fossil Museum
The little town of Aurora in Beaufort County hosts an amazing museum of fossils found in a nearby phosphate mine.
Aurora, NC
Aurora Fossil Museum | North Carolina Weekend | UNC-TV
The little coastal town of Aurora-site of a large phosphate mine-has built an amazing fossil museum with rare specimens from the area.
Aurora, NC
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Aurora Fossil Museum Walk Through
This video was made for the Aurora Fossil Museum! In it I walk through and talk about the exhibits. This is North Carolina's Hidden Gem! Dig for your own fossils in their fossil pit, explore the thousands of artifacts in the museum or participate in one of the museums activities. It is all free! Great adventure for the whole family! Aurora Fossil Festival is memorial day weekend Friday Saturday and Sunday! Check out their website here They are celebrating their 40th year since opening and their 25th year of the fossil festival. Lots of activities planned!
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Draglines at PCS Aurora phosphate mine during Aurora Fossil Festival 2013.
While on a tour of the PCS Phosphate mine in Aurora, North Carolina, we came upon the three draglines in operation mining the phosphate ore. The guide from the company narrated what we were looking at. The large bucket is about the size of a two-car garage!
Going to aurora fossil museum
Aurora Fossil Museum
This video was made for the Aurora Fossil Museum! This is North Carolina's Hidden Gem! Dig for your own fossils in their fossil pit, explore the thousands of artifacts in the museum or participate in one of the museums activities. It is all free! Great adventure for the whole family! Aurora Fossil Festival is memorial day weekend Friday Saturday and Sunday! Check out their website here They are celebrating their 40th year since opening and their 25th year of the fossil festival. Lots of activities planned!
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Fossil Festival coming to Aurora
The small Eastern North Carolina town of Aurora hosts the annual Fossil festival this weekend. A nearby potash mine has unearthed a treasure trove of prehistoric relics over the years.
Aurora Phosphate Plant Spring 2018
Aurora Phosphate Plant Spring 2018
Aurora Fossil Museum
Brief run through of the wonderful marine fossil sharks found in Eastern United States
People and Places with Pierce: The Aurora Fossil Museum
People and Places with Pierce: The Aurora Fossil Museum
People and Places: Aurora Fossil Museum
People and Places: Aurora Fossil Museum
Police seizes rare shark teeth fossils, which were ready to be smuggled out
1. Medium of National Cultural Institute employees looking at fossils
2. Various of fossils found in stones
3. Pull out from box being sent to Florida with fossils
4. Various of shark teeth fossils
5. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Javier Vasquez, Head of Recoveries for the National Institute of Culture:
Peru has many fossil reserves, for this reason, the theft and smuggling of fossils has increased. In 2006, we registered 461 fossil confiscations. This year alone, we have registered nearly 947.
6. Close up of fossil found in rock
7. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Cecilia Pachas, Archaeologist:
The Peruvian government is monitoring the trafficking and is coming up with the necessary sanctions, which will be very drastic.
8. Medium of giant fossil of a shell
9. Wide of archaeologists
10. SOUNDBITE (Spanish) Juan Leon, Archaeologist:
In order for something to become a fossil, at least 10-thousand years need to expire since the animal's death in order to become a fossil.
11. Medium of fossil of fangs
12. Close up of fangs
13. Tilt down of photographer capturing fangs
STORYLINE:
Customs agents in Peru recovered more than four-hundred and forty one fossilised shark teeth on Friday, that are believed to be more than 20 (m) million years old.
According to the National Cultural Institute (INC), the fossils were going to be shipped illegally to the United States and Spain.
The INC's recovery department head Javier Vasquez told the Associated Press one of the confiscated packages contained nearly 300 fossilised pieces.
Peru has many fossil reserves, for this reason, the theft and smuggling of fossils has increased. In 2006, we registered 461 fossil confiscations. This year alone, we have registered nearly 947, Vasquez said.
Although officials do not know where the fossils were taken from, they believe they are from the Piura, Loreto and Arequipa regions.
Among the recovered fossils, archaeologists found teeth fossils of the Megalodon (giant shark) that lived more than 20 (m) million years ago.
The recovered fossils are currently being kept in the Geological Institute of Mines and Metallurgy.
Peru is the third largest producer of ancient fossils in the world. Archaeologists said the government is looking to issue sanctions to punish illegal exporters.
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Aurora holds 25th annual Fossil Festival
Aurora holds 25th annual Fossil Festival
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Timelapse, US highway 421 Watauga & Wilkes County.
Rare Mammals of Belgrade- A FOSSIL Webinar
In May 2018, FOSSIL will be partnering with members of the Special Friends of the Aurora Fossil Museum to investigate rare extinct land mammals at the Belgrade Mine in North Carolina. FOSSIL and SFAFM will be accompanied by 10 individuals from around the United States, who were selected to join the trip based on their participation in the FOSSIL Community Survey.
During this webinar, participants will learn about research into rare extinct land mammals at Belgrade. There will also be an overview of our upcoming citizen science effort, and Q&A from webinar participants.
The Rise and Fall of the Neogene Giant Sharks
Calvert Marine Museum Fossil Club lecture on The Rise and Fall of the Neogene Giant Sharks by Dr. Bretton Kent of the University of Maryland, College Park. The lecture is followed by a question and answer portion.
The lecture took place in the Calvert Marine Museum auditorium in Solomons, Maryland on Saturday, September 28, 2013. This talk was sponsored by the Clarissa and Lincoln Dryden Endowment for Paleontology at the the Calvert Marine Museum.