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Show Something Like Oytiere. Giant fossil oyster shells, said by scientists to be more than 40,000 yenrs old. and some of them measuring measur-ing more than three feet In length, have been discovered In a clay bank In Starr county, Texas, near a petrified petri-fied forest. The fossils were found In a clay and shell bank about !, feet above sea level. Some of the specimens have been sent to the Smithsonian In-xtlp.ifion In-xtlp.ifion and others to the public hen I'll service. j .War the fossil bank are hundreds of petrified tries, some of them four feet !n diameter. In this f irest l a variety of oak now extinct In tlds part of the country. |