SNOWMASS VILLAGE, Colo.—A Colorado resort town is looking back tens of thousands of years to chart its future.
Snowmass Village officials are considering ways to benefit from the recent discovery of a treasure of Ice Age fossils at a construction site. An estimated 600 bones of ancient animals were found after a bulldozer operator first uncovered a bone while working on expansion of a reservoir in October.
Teams from the Denver Museum of Nature and Science are preserving and analyzing the fossils of mammoths, mastodons, ancient bison, a ground sloth, deer and other remains. The Aspen Daily News reports the Snowmass Village Town Council is forming a committee to explore ways the town can benefit from the discovery.
Scientists say the fossils are at least 43,000 years old.
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Information from: Aspen Daily News,
