Dozer Driver Makes Fossil Discovery of the Century

10 mastodons, 4 mammoths, and 2 Ice Age deer - 'once-in-a-lifetime' find

"Not only will it completely shape our understanding of life in the Rockies during the Ice Age, but it will become forever iconic for the kids of Colorado
"There have been suggestions that high-altitude environments might have harbored different communities, or had a different story of change, but since fossils representing them are so rarely found, no one has known for sure,"

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reply to post by wonderworld


thats amazing a find like that under our feet.(or ski's)

the last ice-age was peaking around 20,000 years ago... this assembly of different large animals
must have encountered a sudden calamity like a avalanche, on a well used trail---
because these kinds of animals tend to keep into seperate groups and not mingle together

It's amazing to think that beneath all our feet lies the remains of history long past, even deeper in the ground could be more. That's one thing I always loved about excavations and the like you never know what you may find, and even if you don't you can at least work and chat with like-minded people who have the same passion for what your doing.

just a follow up on the snowmass village CO find....
they had discovered a dinosaur fossil up there some 5 years ago now, & its' still being unearthed.

While mammoths and mastodons near Snowmass Village capture all the attention, scientists are literally chipping away at the remains of a much older local beast.

It has been more than five years since former Old Snowmass resident Mike Gordon stumbled upon strange-looking rocks that he mistook for petrified wood. As it turned out, they were fragments from a 150 million-year-old dinosaur fossil embedded in dirt and rock on his family's property.

www.snowmasssun.com...&parentprofile=1044

here's a strange oddity... did you know that Snowmass Village is ~ 8,100 feet altitude
and its ZIP Code is 81650.... what if GPS refined the towns altitude to be the same as the ZIP?
8,165.0 feet elevation

Originally posted by MystiqueAgent
It's amazing to think that beneath all our feet lies the remains of history long past, even deeper in the ground could be more. That's one thing I always loved about excavations and the like you never know what you may find, and even if you don't you can at least work and chat with like-minded people who have the same passion for what your doing.

It's also interesting to see how these creatures migrated to locations that werent their original habitat and how the habitat changes.

reply to post by St Udio


That was wise to compare the zipcode to the elevation!