Post by Brian Roebuck on Feb 17, 2009 6:38:28 GMT -5
In southeastern Minnesota, cave exploration turns up bones from a saber-toothed cat and other unexpected finds.
Spelunkers are helping to fill in a 200 million-year gap in Minnesota's geological record with fossil finds — including the 26,000-year-old skull of a saber-toothed cat and an antler from an Ice Age-era stag moose.
By John Brewer
jbrewer@pioneerpress.com
Updated: 02/16/2009 11:29:42 PM CST
John Ackerman used to ignore the bones and other debris he'd find while exploring caverns in southeastern Minnesota
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Spelunkers are helping to fill in a 200 million-year gap in Minnesota's geological record with fossil finds — including the 26,000-year-old skull of a saber-toothed cat and an antler from an Ice Age-era stag moose.
By John Brewer
jbrewer@pioneerpress.com
Updated: 02/16/2009 11:29:42 PM CST
John Ackerman used to ignore the bones and other debris he'd find while exploring caverns in southeastern Minnesota
www.twincities.com/ci_11719105?nclick_check=1