Bones on Riverbar (IMAGE)

University of Alaska Fairbanks

Bones on Riverbar

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University of Alaska Fairbanks researchers Daniel Mann and Pamela Groves found these ice age antlers, tusks and bones in a single day of collecting along an arctic river. The moose antlers date to 12,000 years ago. The picture also shows steppe bison bones, several mammoth tusks and bones, a muskox skull and several horse leg bones.

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Photo by Pamela Groves, University of Alaska Fairbanks.

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