The stations marble floors are stained with odd patterns, not usually seen in marble slabs.

Yet, aside from the occasional casual glance, few passengers have paid any real attention to these markings.

Fewer have stopped to gaze at and appreciate these shapes and fewer still have pondered on its mystery.

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Many would stop dead in their tracks if you are to tell them they are treading on 80-million-year-old fossils.

Many still dont know about it.

Over millions of years their exoskeleton and bodies became fossilized in limestone.

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Geologists agree that the fossils embedded in the marble slabs of the subway station has immeasurable scientific value.

Sources:Tourist in Romania/Wikipedia/Scientia

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