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Family and Fossils: Million-year-old gifts from my wife and sisters
A Diacalymene trilobite. You can probably relate to trilobites by looking at two common present-day arthropods (members of the Phylum Arthropoda to which trilobites belong)—pillbugs, those tiny crawlies under fallen leaves which curl up when disturbed, and the sea roaches on rocks at the Manila Bay breakwater. —CONTRIBUTED PHOTOS

Family and Fossils: Million-year-old gifts from my wife and sisters

(Third of three parts) Family and fossils: My cousin Isko and my first precious find, Family and fossils: My grandchild Meg and a treasure trove I have in my hand a fossil—the remains of an ancient creature called a trilobite. This animal-looking rock resulted when the trilobite was buried and minerals replaced its body parts. It looks very old and...

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Part of the author’s Cebu fossil collection. He has other sets consisting of fossil clams and corals.

Family and fossils: My grandchild Meg and a treasure trove

(Second of two parts) First of two parts : Family and fossils: My cousin Isko and my first precious find I found my second fossil—and a third, a fourth, in fact several shoe boxes full—practically at my doorstep. It was in the summer of 2003 when I was vacationing in Mandaue, the same summer my son Leon decided to expand...

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