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Chile seizes more than ‌200 fossils of extinct mollusks

Customs officials in Chile discovered ‌and seized more than 200 fossils ‌of ammonites in a shipping container from Madagascar that had ⁠been ​declared ⁠as containing household ornaments, the customs ⁠authority of the South ​American country said on Friday.

Ammonites ⁠are mollusks closely related to ⁠octopuses ​and squids that became extinct during the ⁠Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event, a major mass ⁠extinction ⁠that wiped out all of the non-avian dinosaurs ‌around ‌66 million years ​ago.