I’m in a car with Jun Ebersol, a paleontologist based at the McWane Science Center in Birmingham, and on a recent morning we made our way to South Alabama to look for fossils. “It’s a really remarkable area down there from a fossil standpoint,” Ebersol said. Alabama is known for its biodiversity. According to Ebersol, the state’s been biodiverse for millions of years, meaning Alabama’s fossils are diverse as well.