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Associated Press KENANSVILLE — When workers digging up peat at a former central Florida sod farm unearthed human remains with their backhoe, they called the police. But this was a cold case that authorities were unlikely to solve. The bones found Thursday appeared to be those of a young man who died in his late teens or early 20s about 4,800 years ago, said Anthony Falsetti, an associate professor of anthropology at the University of Florida. "It's quite significant because it ties into some earlier discoveries in the 1980s ... dating back to 8,000 years ago," Falsetti said Friday. "It...

FOR RELEASE: FRIDAY, JAN. 24, 2003 CONTACT: Walter Manger, professor of geology, Fulbright College (479)575-3370, wmanger@uark.edu Sarah Kee, undergraduate geology student (479)236-6510, skee@uark.edu Kevin Morgan, undergraduate geology student (479)756-5995, kmmorga@uark.edu Allison Hogge, science and research communications officer (479)575-5555, alhogge@uark.edu PHOTOS available for download at http://advancement.uark.edu/news/. SHELL-SHOCK: THREE UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS STUDENTS FIND WORLD'S LONGEST NAUTILOID FOSSIL FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. -- Three undergraduate students from the University of Arkansas made a world-class discovery this week when they uncovered a 325-million-year-old nautiloid fossil just yards from two of Fayetteville's busiest roads. At exactly eight feet in length, their find represents the longest actinoceratoid...