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Scientists excavating an Ice Age ecosystem in Snowmass Village, Colorado, have discovered numerous finds including a giant sloth, an American mastodon, and an Ice Age bison like the skeleton pictured here.![Mammoth Bones]()
Bones of a juvenile Columbian mammoth (Mammuthus columbi) were on display at the offices of the Snowmass Water and Sanitation District offices on October 27. This fossil was discovered on October 14 by Gould Construction employees Kent Olson and Jesse Steele.![Sloth Humerus]()
Denver Museum of Nature & Science staff and volunteers admire the humerus (upper arm bone) of a giant ground sloth discovered on November 4, 2010, at the Ziegler Reservoir excavation site near Snowmass Village, Colorado.![Bison Horn]()
The curator of archaeology at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science, Dr. Steve Holen, holds a horn core from a large ice age bison (Bison antiquus) from the Ziegler Reservoir site near Snowmass Village, Colorado.![Mastadon Tusk]()
Denver Museum of Nature & Science volunteers apply a supportive covering of burlap soaked in plaster-of-Paris to a large Mastodon tusk at the Ziegler Reservoir excavation site near Snowmass Village, Colorado.![Mammoth Skeleton]()
A historical photograph of a very large Columbian mammoth from Nebraska is stored at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science.![Fossil Plants]()
A museum staffer holds up peat with extremely well-preserved monocot (grass-like) leaves from the excavation at the Ziegler Reservoir excavation site near Snowmass Village, Colorado.![Plaster Jacket]()
After the skull of a bison was excavated, Museum crews created a “jacket” for it out of burlap strips and plaster of Paris. The jacket will protect the fossil, making it safer to transport to the Museum in Denver.![Snowmass Bison]()
Dr. Ian Miller, curator of paleontology and chair of the Museum’s Earth Science Department, is credited with spotting the bison horn core first, after it was churned up by a bulldozer.Mammoth Ice Age Finds in Colorado
Crews excavating a site in western Colorado say they've unearthed the bones of numerous Ice Age animals -- including three mastodons and one juvenile Columbian mammoth, and even a giant sloth.
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