The latest episode of "Tales of Ancient Life" is now available!

The latest episode of "Tales of Ancient Life" is now available!

The Solite Quarry, located along the central Virginia-North Carolina border, is a shale rock quarry that preserves the remains of an ancient lake that existed there approximately 225 million years ago. From this site, museum researchers have collected a large array of fossils, none of which are more common than that of the clam shrimp!

Clam shrimp are not clams and they technically aren't shrimp, but they are a member of the crustaceans and Assistant Curator of Paleontology Dr. Adam Pritchard is here to tell you all about these unheralded creatures! Oh, and don't miss a special appearance by Paleontology Technician Lucy Treado!

Special thanks to Carter Bank & Trust (www.cbtcares.com) and Boxley Materials Company (www.boxley.com) for helping make this episode possible!

ABOUT TALES OF ANCIENT LIFE
Our planet has an incredible story to tell and VMNH Assistant Curator of Paleontology Dr. Adam Pritchard helps share it through his original video series, "Tales of Ancient Life". Dr. Pritchard uses spectacular fossils and other scientific specimens from the museum's paleontology collections to highlight the wonders of earth's ancient past in ways that are both relevant and understandable to a wide variety of ages.

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