National Geographic News reports that a new species of ancient amphibian has been found near the airport.
Scientists named the 300-million-year-old Fedexia strieglei as a gesture of thanks to the FedEx shipping company, which owns the land where the fossils were found, says study co-author Dave Berman of the Carnegie Museum of Natural History.
The 2-foot-long creature is also named for University of Pittsburgh geology student Adam Streigel, who mistook fossils of Fedexia's teeth for ancient fern leaves when he picked them up on a 2004 field trip.
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