SNOWMASS VILLAGE, Colo.—Crews from the Denver Museum of Nature and Science have begun excavating a western Colorado site where bones of ancient animals have been found.
The field crews began work Tuesday at the site where bones from mammoths and a mastodon were discovered in Snowmass Village in October. The first bones were unearthed by a bulldozer operator working on expansion of a reservoir.
The Denver museum signed an agreement last week with the Snowmass Water and Sanitation District for the donation of the fossils.
Museum officials returned to Denver Tuesday with five tusks and the lower jaw of a juvenile mammoth to begin preserving the bones. More members of the museum team will arrive in Snowmass Wednesday as they race against winter weather.
