In 1873 Carlo Major, an expert of the Geologic Museum of Florence, told to the palaeontologist Giovanni Cappellini, about a discovery near Montaione of a fossil referable to the skull of a big cetacean.

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M. Moncharmont, teacher of paleontology, dean at the University of Naples Federico II, in 1960, had the ingenius idea to discover a fossil layer out of "The cavere" spot since from the researches by Prof. Geremia D’Erasmo on the area, in the years 1914-1915, scholars were not able to find important fossil finds. In the seventies several searching session were organized by the University of Geology and Palaeontology also with Geopalaeontological campaigns in order to study the eastern side of Matese mountain and particularly Pietraroja area. Afterwards, in October 1982, just in the area of the present park, an excavation campaign was made by the Palaeontological Institute and Museum of Naples University together with Natural History Museum of Turin; at that time a lot of fossil finds were found.

North American Paleontological Convention, 2009, will be held in Cincinnati. A meeting of representatives of the Associated North American Paleontological Societies (ANAPS) was convened in Salt Lake City, at the 2005 meeting of GSA.

Part paleontological adventure and part memoir, Twilight of the Mammoths presents in detail internationally renowned paleoecologist Paul Martin's widely discussed and debated "overkill" hypothesis to explain mysterious megafauna extinctions.

A new paleontology center provides a crash course in the area's well-preserved fossils of plants and animals. They span 40 million years of the Cenozoic Era, which goes from 65 million years ago to the present.