Once protected by thickets of poison ivy and riddled with rattlesnakes, a cave discovered in South Dakota’s Wind Cave National Park has, for the scientists exploring it, certainly lived up…
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Wyoming Cave Yields a Trove of Ice Age Fossils — and Ancient Animal DNA
A team of enterprising and adventurous scientists in Wyoming has just finished the first in a series of excavations at one of the largest deposits of Ice Age fossils in…
Read MoreFirst Columbian Mammoth With Hair Discovered on California Farm
Artichoke farmers plowing their fields in northern California have reaped a strange harvest: a trove of exotic animal fossils, including camel, mastodon and — most striking of all — the…
Read MoreFossil Camel Discovered in Oklahoma by Oil Workers
As the rush intensifies to find new reserves of fossil fuels, digs throughout the West are yielding another byproduct — fossils. Oilfield workers in western Oklahoma have unearthed deposits of…
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