The Ministry said that a team from the Department of Heritage Areas of the Ministry of Environment has studied and collected samples in the Koh Round Station, where turtle fossils were found in 2024.
The ministry stated: "As a result, the team found some fossil fragments of skeletal animals and many wood fossils and inscriptions.
The study was also attended by four international fossil experts, geology experts, and students from various universities such as the Cambodian Institute of Technology, Phnom Penh University, Phnom Penh University of Fine Arts on February 20, 2025.
Further studies at the laboratory are also carried out, as well as various inscriptions, so that experts can draw conclusions about the environment in which those animals lived.
The Department of Heritage Areas has received a research project on fossil identification and graphs for paleo-environmental studies in southern Cambodia from UNESCO through the National Commission for UNESCO Cambodia.
A team of national and international experts has also excavated and discovered dinosaur fossils on Koh Po in Koh Po Village, Kum Bak Klang District, Mom Sima District, Koh Kong Province in November 2022.
The first fossil discovery in Cambodia was in 2017, and subsequently, environmental experts have discovered a variety of fossils, ranging from fossils of marine animals, rock-to-stone trees, and new dinosaur fossils.
To date, the Ministry of Environment has discovered more than 40 fossil terminals.
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