Although it is likely some fossils have simply been destroyed over time, others, buried too deep to be found by palaeontologists today, may become available to future generations when disturbed by events such as earthquakes.

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"Our goal now is to deliver the music that was buried here for a long time - everything we play was written and composed by us in the 1980s, " he recalls.

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The design of a time capsule to be buried beneath Preston's Flag Market has been unveiled by the city's mayor.

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No one would guess that they had not even buried the unlucky blacksmith, whose brain was eventually picked over by crows, and to whose carcass the tiger would return time and time again, until he had learned something about the taste of man, about the freshness of human meat, which was different now, in snow, than it had been in the heat of summer.

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