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Panhandle fossil hunters reveal rich Nebraska bone bed
A dozen University of Nebraska students spent a summer in Nebraska panhandle counties Mor rill Scotts Bluffs Banner Sioux and Dawes collecting eight tons of fossil bones. They packed and shipped 16 000 pounds of bones to the university museum after careful quarrying and prep work using ice picks chisels and dental tools. The expedition leader was Bertrand Schultz with team members from Lincoln Grand Island and other towns. The find includes bones of extinct cats dogs camels horses pigs and deer and may hide ancient tools like a chipped dart point embedded in one specimen.
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