Fossil Treasures in Morocco Desert Town at Risk

Inhabitants of an oasis town watch over a rare and vanishing treasure in Morocco's remote eastern desert. At the entrance of a traditional townhouse visitors are welcomed by a piece of Erfoud's unusual bounty: the petrified skeleton of a prehistoric creature. This huge ammonite is one of hundreds of archeological jewels in and around the town of 30,000 people, which geologists and archeologists have called "the largest open air fossil museum in the world". ...