Amazingly ancient fossil found behind strip mall.

Hey, my mall has a Fossil! (Designer name brand humor there for ya.) From the Boston Globe:

When it comes to jaw-dropping fossil discoveries, distant places where T. Rex and other prehistoric beasts once roamed come more quickly to mind than southeastern Massachusetts. But yesterday, Tufts University announced the discovery of what may well be the world's oldest fossil imprint of a whole flying insect - found by researchers behind a strip mall in North Attleborough.

Tufts geology senior Richard J. Knecht, working with paleontologist Jacob Benner, uncovered an exquisitely etched impression made some 310 million years earlier by a primitive insect - probably an early form of the common mayfly. The insect lighted on a damp outcropping in what was then a steamy Carboniferous Period flood plain - and in that fleeting moment left a 3-inch-long outline that was captured for eternity in mud that hardened into rock. That was the same rock discovered by the Tufts team.