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November 21, 2010
Dozer Driver Makes Fossil Discovery of the Century
Looks like there was a major fossil find up near Snowmass Village:
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/11/20/snowmass-inside-greatest-discovery-century/#ixzz15ylZx7ue
An accidental discovery by a bulldozer driver has led to what may be the find of the century: an ice-age burial ground that could rival the famed La Brea tar pits.
After two weeks of excavating ancient fossils at the Ziegler Reservoir near Snowmass Village, Colorado, scientists from the Denver Museum of Natural Science returned home Wednesday with their unearthed treasures in tow -- a wide array of fossils, insects and plant life that they say give a stunningly realistic view of what life was like when ancient, giant beasts lumbered across the Earth.
Since the team's arrival in mid-October, scientists have extracted nearly 600 bones from about 20 different animals from the Pleistocene era, a period of time during the Ice Age. The remains of up to six different species have been exhumed, including five American mastodons, three Ice Age bison, a Jefferson's ground sloth, a mule deer, a tiger salamander, and two Columbian mammoths.
Of course, they wouldn't be tree-hugging glassy-eyed liberal scientists if they didn't try to drag this this seemingly peripheral event into the lime-light of their pseudo-science of "Global-Warming-today, Climate-Change-tomorrow, check-back-next-week-and-I'll-have-a-new-and-improved-scare-tactic-for-you-by-then".
"So this site is really going to help us answer questions about how high elevation floras and faunas reacted to Pleistocene climate change."
Give it a rest, tree-huggers. You're not fooling anyone. The sky is not falling and, even if it were, I wouldn't trust you to tell me the color of the sky, much less if it were falling.
Posted by Rob Kiser on November 21, 2010 at 8:40 PM
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