Vol. 31, Number 10, October 21, 1999
Big old bones
Charles Harrington/University Photography
From left, in Snee Hall Oct. 14, Cathleen Schickel and her daughters Michaela and Caitlin, from Dryden, listen to John Chiment, instructor in Geology 491, discuss an Earth Sciences Week display, including, in the forefront, a mastodon bone excavated recently from a bog near Watkins Glen with the help of students in Chiment's class. In an update from the excavation site, Chiment reported the recovery of a distinctive tooth fragment that, together with the shape of other excavated bones, indicated the animal was indeed a mastodon, and that a second, smaller skeleton may belong to a juvenile mastodon.
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