The Denver Post, 11/14/2010
This place is a pit. A giant, oozing, squishy bog of malodorous peat,
sticky clay and mud that can suck the boots off your feet. But for
anyone looking for a spot where everything went right for paleontology
and posterity, it is here at Ziegler Reservoir. For two weeks, Denver
Museum of Nature & Science crews have been pulling out treasures: five
or more mastodons, a bison skull with 7-foot horn span, a couple of
Columbian mammoths, a giant Jefferson ground sloth (the state's first),
complete deer with antlers, salamanders, snails, two more bison — a
"prehistoric zoo," as local headlines read. Scientists here are giddy
with excitement. "Every day we've been making flashy discoveries," said
Kirk Johnson, the museum's chief curator. "Every day it's something
new." "Every freaking day," reverentially echoes Ian Miller, curator of
paleontology. As of last week, diggers had found more than 200 bones.
One expert estimated that tusks and other pieces of perhaps a dozen
mastodons are at the site.
http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_16608162
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