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star_120The Paleontological Research Institution (PRI) and The Museum of the Earth will bring its popular Fossil Dig Pit to the New York State Fair in Syracuse, NY from August 26 to September 6, 2010. Visitors to the Fair will have the chance to dig through 380-million-year-old shale from the Ithaca area hunting for fossils.

The Central New York area is filled with fossils from the Devonian period (about 350-400 million-years-ago), and it’s quite common to find them at parks or in your own backyard. These fossils can tell us a great deal about what life was like millions of years ago and about the geology of our landscape.

"Geology is a local subject," stated Rob Ross, Associate Director of Outreach at the Paleontological Research Institution and its Museum of the Earth. "No two places share exactly the same sequence of geological events that led to the way they are today. In this sense, geology is a subject to be explored in one’s own neighborhood, examining the detailed sequence of rocks for the history that has gone on under our feet, and finding clues to what life was like as the earth evolved over the last 4-billion years."

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