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| | University of Oregon Press Releases (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13) |
 | | EUGENE--Two amateur paleontologists have discovered a 40-million-year old fossil egg, the first ever discovered in Oregon, according to William Orr, director of the state museum of fossils, the Condon collection, housed at the University of Oregon. |
 | | Jim Leary of Cottage Grove discovered the egg, slightly smaller than a hen's egg, while fossil collecting with his brother-in-law, Kevin Benson, near Vernonia west of Portland. |
 | | Orr and his wife Elizabeth, co-authors of a number of books on the pre-history of Oregon and the Northwest, are just completing a new book on the fossils and paleontologists of Oregon. |
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