A recent article in Gallivant magazine highlights a museum in East Tennessee where a road building project uncovered a huge repository of fossils, including camels, elephants, rhinos, and tapirs. The fossils date from the Miocene, about seven million years ago. The site covers about five acres, where visitors can take a guided tour to watch as the excavation progresses, and learn about the fossils from the exhibits housed in a 33,000 square foot museum. The East Tennessee State University and General Shale Brick Natural History Museum and Gray Fossil Site is located in Gray, Tennessee, in the far northeast corner of the state.

--Gallivant, Spring 2008

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