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| Written by Johnathan Silver, The Shorthorn senior staff | ||||
| Wednesday, 07 October 2009 05:44 PM | ||||
 
Site director Derek Main speaks about the Arlington
Archosaur Site on Wednesday in Nedderman Hall. Main hypothesized that
millions of years ago Arlington was on a coastal peninsula due to the
facts that the fossils of fish, crocodiles, and sharks were found at the
Arlington site. (The Shorthorn: Meghan Williams) More fossil, university and media exposure will come in the next year for a local prehistoric excavation site. During a Wednesday lecture, Derek Main, the Arlington Archosaur site director, said he and volunteer diggers will be featured in “Prehistoric America,” a Discovery Channel series set to air in spring 2010. Main also gave updates on findings at the area in North Arlington and briefly discussed the history of the project and other prehistoric research. Many cities have remains beneath infrastructure that can’t be accessed, Main said. Arlington has much untouched land which is strange for a metropolitan area, he said. “Arlington is the entertainment capital of North Texas,” Main said. “You can go watch football and dig up dinosaurs.” Fossils and sediments can be anywhere if one looks for it, he said. One example included a dig site volunteer finding lungfish remains behind a McDonalds restaurant. Main, who is also an earth science graduate student and lecturer, will use the dig site results for his doctoral thesis. The College of Engineering and the Arlington Technology Association sponsored the lecture. Mechanical engineering sophomore Ross Eric said he liked the comparison between Arlington’s dig site and other states with on going excavation projects. “It looked like an interesting talk and it fit into my schedule out of the events this week, plus I live in Arlington,” he said. “Good stuff to know. It’s something that I’d like to know more about.” Alan Davis, electrical engineering associate professor, said prehistoric times talk is not the norm for most speeches he attends. “It was a little bit different,” he said. “It’s something most of us don’t think about.” Views: 58 | E-mail
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