Daily News | Fossil guy finds ‘funky worm’ with a Philly hook
Ben Kligman thinks he found his first fossils on a family hike at age 5 or 6 — perhaps some prehistoric shark teeth in South Jersey, or the remains of crablike creatures called trilobites near Harrisburg. Great stuff to fire the imagination of a kid growing up on the Main Line, but fairly easy to find if you know where to look.
So why had no one found the remains of older caecilians? Turned out scientists had not been looking in the right place, said Kligman, who grew up in Tredyffrin Township and is now earning a Ph.D. at Virginia Tech. So at the national park in Arizona, where Kligman works in the summer, he and colleagues dug through thousands of pounds of rock to reach a geologic layer corresponding to the mid-Triassic. They then took samples of the sediment back to their lab, and picked through it with tweezers, searching for the remains of small animals.
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