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:: Friday, June 04, 2004 ::
Hunting fossils in hard-hat country By LARRY RAND, Victorville Daily Press, CA
Construction trades these days include carpenters, electricians, concrete workers, roofers and paleontologists.
That's right, you can't build a subdivision in some parts of the Victor Valley without a professional fossil hunter — a paleontologist — on the premises.
The Ice Age Mojave River and ancient lakes covered up dying animals quickly enough to preserve their skeletons as fossils, and grading property for construction in the old riverbed often exposes valuable fossils that need to be dug up, studied and preserved.
The most famous fossil ever taken here — the Victorville Mammoth, considered the most complete fossilized mammoth skeleton found in the Mojave Desert — was discovered on a building site in 1993 by construction worker Brian Nunes.------------------------------------------- posted 6:28 AM :: reference link ::
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