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Some Fossil Animals [1]
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Date: 2025-02-13
Welcome to the Street Prophets Coffee Hour cleverly hidden at the intersection of religion, art, science, food, and politics. This is an open thread where we can share our thoughts and comments about the day. Let’s go back in time today and look back not through history but paleontology.
Paleontology is the study of the ancient past through fossils and the geologic record. Fossils are simply the preserved remains or traces of ancient plants and animals. With regard to animals, the parts of the animal most likely to fossilize are the hardest parts, that is, bones, teeth, and shells. The Reach Museum in Richland, Washington, focuses on the Hanford Reach area of the Columbia River. The Museum includes a small display of animal fossils from the region.
Shown above is the tusk from a wooly mammoth.
Shown above are Mastodon bone fragments.
Shown above is a bone from a ground sloth.
Shown above are the upper and lower jaws of a ground sloth.
Shown above is a skull fragment from a deer.
Shown above is a jaw fragment from a deer.
Shown above is a tooth from a peccary.
Shown above is a camel metatarsal.
Shown above is a bone fragment from a camel (2) and a bone fragment from a horse (3).
Shown above is an upper tooth from a camel.
Shown above is jaw fragment from a large cat.
Shown above is the lower jaw from a camel.
Shown above is the upper jaw from a camel.
Shown above are rodent burrows.
Shown above are bone fragments from Bony Fish (Teleostei).
Shown above are turtle shell fragments.
Shown above are beaver teeth.
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