Pedestrians walk on 66-million-year old fossils

Genuine article: This combination of pictures shows various fossils of ammonites embedded in the new pavement of a Bangkok shopping mall by the building contractors, apparently as decorations. — AFP

More than 70 shells embedded in a footpath outside a Bangkok shopping mall have been found to be the fossils of marine creatures that lived more than 66 million years ago, Thai experts have confirmed.

An eagle-eyed shopper first spotted the snail-shaped fossils, measuring up to 12cm across, dotted along a 400m stretch of pavement by the Siam Square shopping centre in a major tourist district.