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Mountains sure aren´t what they used to be. Take the Dolomites in the Veneto Region of Italy and Austria; 140 to 90 million years ago, they were part of the sea floor rather than mountains. Over millions of years, deposits were then formed from calcareous shells of marine life from the Mesozoic era.
'When we received such a message the first thing that came to mind was what is this prank' said Hanan Argov, who received the fossils from the Museum of Natural History Vienna and handed them over to the Steinhardt Museum of Natural History in Tel Aviv