Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Mammoth Mania II: Revenge of the Bone Geeks

As I'd reported previously (see Mammoth Mania! ), in 2010 Snowmass Village was the location for a major paleontological find. The incident is featured in an hour-long Nova episode, "Ice Age Death Trap", and airs tomorrow evening, Wednesday, February 01. From PBS.org:
In a race against developers in the Rocky Mountains, archeologists uncover a unique fossil site packed with astonishingly well-preserved bones of mammoths, mastodons, and other giant extinct beasts. The discovery opens a highly focused window on the vanished world of the Ice Age in North America.
The trailer plays like a promo for Ice Road Truckers, not a dignified scientific expedition, but I'm hoping there'll be some legit science... and that they didn't uncover that hobo's body.

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