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IN t named Mike Vooring around onsome grassy farmland in eastern Nebraska, not far from ttle toed a curious glint in to ly preserved skull ofa young r by recent heavy rains.
A fe turned out, extraordinary fossil beds everdiscovered in Norter ooturtles. All erious cataclysm just under time knoogeology as tood on a vast, plain very like ti of Africa today. to tenfeet deep. t t, and never had been, any volcanoes inNebraska.
today, te of Voorate Park, and it ylisors’ center and museum, ful displays on tory of ter incorporates a lab ors can cologists cleaning bones. orking alone in t ary in wured.
t get a ors to Asate Park—it’s sligo sook me to t atop a ty-foot ravine where he had made his find.
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In a setting like ture across t and unvarying prairie—“you kno stuff out tto so start looking.”
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tary ed t tence of so muc, Nebraska’s s for a long time. Foralmost a century to make andAjax. But curiously no one to wonder whe ash came from.
“I’m a little embarrassed to tell you,” Voor t I tabout it tional Geograpo confess t I didn’t know. Nobody knew.”
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