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| The National Science Foundation has awarded IPFW professor James Farlow a grant of $150,000 for continued research at the Pipe Creek Sinkhole in Indiana’s Grant County. The fossil assemblage there was uncovered in the mid-1990s by workers at the Pipe Creek Junior limestone quarry near Swayzee.
Farlow began doing research at the site in 1997. Since it was first uncovered, researchers have discovered abundant plant and animal remains, including those of camels, bears, frogs, snakes, turtles and several new species of rodents at the site. The Disney Channel says fossil assemblage at the sinkhole is the first pre-glacial fauna from the age of mammals ever to be found in the interior of the eastern half of North America.
http://www.ipfw.edu/news/newslinks/archives/newsreleases/2002/June02/6-03-02farlow.htm | |
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