“Search for Noids, Pods and Zoas” on Saturday, June 14, 2003

(Search for Cincinnati’s World Famous Fossils)

April 28, 2003 – Cincinnati, Ohio – The “Search for Noids, Pods, & Zoas” –animals that are

450 million years old —otherwise known as fossils—will be held on Saturday, June 14. This FREE family-focused (adults with kid/s 7+) “ Search for Noids, Pods and Zoas” field trip will be to a fossil hunting location—meet at 10AM at the K-Mart lot on Route 42 in Sharonville. Look for the “Search for Noids, Pods and Zoas” banner.

Once covered by a tropical inland sea, today Cincinnati is famous for the remains of animals that are 450 million years old, Ordovician age fossils. Come and learn about these animals and how to collect

and identify them. Trilobites, shelled squid (cephalopods), bryozoans, coral, snails, sea shells,

and sea lilies (Crinoids)

Each kid will receive a “Noid, Pod and Zoas” mini poster featuring major types of Ordovician fossils!

Plus, each kid will receive a psuedo “Flexi –caly-mene meeki” or trilobite—a really cool fossil.

And, kids can win a prize for finding the most fossils on the mini-poster!! Free Fossil Book

and Name on Plaque, they keep, indicating they found the most, different kinds of fossils.

Or, kids can wind a prize for finding the most rare or unusual fossil!!! Free Membership in

the Dry Dredgers, Inc. and the Cincinnati Museum Center and their Name on a Plaque, they keep, indicating they found the most rare or unusual fossil.

Search for Noids, Pods and & Zoas is a FREE, outdoor, educational family event –fossils can be found almost in any neighborhood in Cincinnati where dirt and rocks are exposed. At most you might need a rock hammer to help dig out an embedded fossil, otherwise a bag, just a plastic one from the grocery store, to collect them will work—so it’s a FREE hobby.

And, the Cincinnati region is world famous for its fossils. That’s because they are 450 MILLION years old!!!!! To give you a point of comparison, dinosaurs are about 200 million years old and contemporary human beings are around 100 thousand years old. That means, the fossilized animals in Cincinnati are really, really OLD!!!

And, it’s OUTDOORS!!! If your kid isn’t into sports, it is likely that they sit around and watch TV, play videogames, or spend time on the computer. This hobby is a great way to get your kid/s outside—in the fresh air, getting a little exercise. And, if your kid is into sports, this will provide an outdoor hobby that is educational. Fossils are preserved plants and animals—clues to geology, geography, ecology—that reconstruct the interrelationship of life.

Most of all—it is FUN!!!! Discovery of life that is over 450 million years old is exciting!!!!

The event is sponsored by the Barton (Memorial) Youth Fossil Education Program of the Dry Dredgers,Inc. (a non-profit Cincinnati fossil club). Web site: bartonyouth@drydredgers.org, or fossil@netsync.net