{"id":190199,"date":"2022-05-04T00:41:19","date_gmt":"2022-05-03T19:11:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=190199"},"modified":"2022-05-04T00:41:19","modified_gmt":"2022-05-03T19:11:19","slug":"fossils-from-66-million-years-ago-found-in-pavement-outside-bangkok-mall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2022\/05\/04\/fossils-from-66-million-years-ago-found-in-pavement-outside-bangkok-mall\/","title":{"rendered":"Fossils From 66 Million Years Ago Found In Pavement Outside Bangkok Mall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bangkok, Thailand, 3 May (AP): More than 70 shells embedded in a footpath outside a Bangkok shopping mall have been found to be the fossils of marine creatures that lived more than 66 million years ago, Thai experts have confirmed.<br \/>\nAn eagle-eyed shopper first spotted the snail-shaped fossils, measuring up to 12 centimeters (five inches) across, dotted along a 400-metre stretch of pavement by the Siam Square shopping centre in a major tourist district.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Paleontologists from the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment investigated and found 77 ammonite fossils.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ammonites are marine creatures believed to have died out 66 million years ago, Preecha Saithong, director of the ministry&#8217;s fossil protection division, told AFP on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;The ammonites are real,&#8221; he said, adding that the fossils differed from ones usually found in Thailand.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Local media reported that the footpath was repaired two years ago and the shells may have been inserted into the concrete as decoration by sub-contractors.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The fossilised ocean-dwelling molluscs, which lived during the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods, are sold as souvenirs in several popular tourist destinations including Madagascar and Morocco.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bangkok, Thailand, 3 May (AP): More than 70 shells embedded in a footpath outside a Bangkok shopping mall have been found to be the fossils of marine creatures that lived more than 66 million years ago, Thai experts have confirmed. An eagle-eyed shopper first spotted the snail-shaped fossils, measuring up to 12 centimeters (five inches) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-190199","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190199\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}