#lostbones — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #lostbones, aggregated by home.social.
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🐻 For #FossilFriday 🐂🦥🐴🐪🐟 a new #LostBones article is out on Substack! This one is a deep-deep dive into brown bear (Ursus arctos) and giant short-faced bears (Arctodus simus) in the Midwest and Surrounding areas.
Please share to get out the word!
See it thru the link in my bio or here: https://marcusbrandel.substack.com/p/lost-bones-6-bears-repeating
#Ursusarctos #Arctodussimus #Bears #GiantShortFacedBears #pleistocene #holocene #paleontology #iceage #fossil #citizenscience #sciencemuseumofmn
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#FossilFriday The final tooth—12 of 12—is SMM P2024.5.1, a lower molar found at Mississippi Gateway Regional Park (Brooklyn Park, MN) in 2023.
Twelve 3D printed reproductions of the molars are also underway and are now receiving their final paint touches. Once complete, the original specimens will be carefully packed and shipped to UC Irvine’s W. M. Keck Carbon Cycle AMS Facility (KCCAMS) for radiocarbon dating.
#LostBones #Pleistocene #Equus #MinnesotaHistory #Paleontology #CitizenScience
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🐴 #YearOfTheHorse #FossilFriday 🐟🐘🦥🐴🐪 Specimen SMM P2025.8.6 — originally MNH 779 in the Minnesota Historical Society collection — comes from Nicollet County near St. Peter, Minnesota.
Molar #11 of 12 in the statewide Ice Age horse project. All twelve will be heading to UC Irvine’s KCCAMS Facility for radiocarbon dating this summer.
Follow the full 12 tooth journey in Lost Bones #4 and its updates through the link in my bio.
#LostBones #Pleistocene #Equus #Paleontology #CitizenScience
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🐂 #LostBones #FossilFriday 🐟🐘🦥🐴🐪 This month I'm back out #CountingBones. At the Winnebago Area Museum a quiet storage room revealed bison and horse remains from two Blue Earth River sites
Shout out: this museum has been entirely volunteer run for half a century — the kind of stewardship that will help keep Ice Age stories alive.
Museum: https://www.winnebagoareamuseum.org
Learn about the Lost Bones project: https://marcusbrandel.substack.com/about
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🐴🐘🐪 This tooth survived the end of the Ice Age in a gravel pit. 🦷
Found 5 miles east of Montevideo, this lower horse molar may have belonged to one of the last Equus roaming Minnesota before their disappearance from North America. It’s tooth 10 in the 12 specimen project tracing Minnesota’s Ice Age horses.
Follow the whole 12 tooth journey in Lost Bones #4 thru the link in my bio.
#LostBones #FossilFriday #Pleistocene #Equus #MinnesotaHistory #Paleontology #CitizenScience #RadiocarbonDating
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#lostbones #FossilFriday 🐂🦥🐴🐪🐟🍃Today’s fossil comes from along the Minnesota river near Granite Falls, Minnesota: a possible Cretaceous age Inoceramus (or Platyceramus)—the giant clam. Housed at the Yellow Medicine County Historical Society & Museum.
If you’d like to explore more, check out these links:
The Museum: www.co.ym.mn.gov/county-museums
Cretaceous Minnesota: https://substack.com/home/post/p-194648239
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Horses vanished from North America ~10,000 years ago. So why are these fossilized teeth turning up across the Midwest
A friend found the infamous “black tooth” back in 2018 — and now we’re waiting for the radiocarbon dates. No dates have previously been documented!
Will they point to the Ice Age, or something pre‑European contact? 💬 Share your thoughts — what do you think the dates will reveal?
#LostBones #FossilFriday #Equus #Horses #CitizenSceience
Read More: https://open.substack.com/pub/marcusbrandel/p/lost-bones
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🐴 #LostBones #FossilFriday — Molar (SMM P77.20.1), specimen 8 of 12, was recovered in 1976 — the same year the U.S. celebrated its Bicentennial. This much older story emerged from the landscape in St. Cloud, Minnesota, when P. Lansing collected this beautiful upper horse molar near Highway 23.
Long before modern roads and cities, horses may have roamed Ice Age Minnesota, grazing across open prairie while mammoths and giant bison shared the region.
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#LostBones #FossilFriday #RadioCarbonDating 🐂🦥🐴🐘🐪In June 1921, workers removing the overburden at the Sagamore Mine near Riverton, Minnesota uncovered a peat layer ~eight feet below the surface that held a rich Pleistocene bone bed. Among the material recovered from this layer were a horse molar (specimen #6) and an horse incisor, found alongside other late‑Quaternary remains within the same sedimentary zone.
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Happy #LostBones #FossilFriday! 🐴🦣🐂🦥🍃🐪🐟 Was on the road this week with @dr_crocogator to retrieve specimen #4! This beauty of a horse molar (right p2) is from Wright County, Minnesota.
It was found on the shore of Olson’s Point on Buffalo Lake in 1976 and was currently housed at the Wright County Historical Society in Buffalo.
www.wrighthistory.org
📖Notes: https://substack.com/profile/74732696-marcus-brandel/note/c-210629991#pleistocene #equus #palaeontology #citizenscience #horse #iceage #mnmuseums
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🐴 #LostBones #FossilFriday — Twelve horse teeth from across Minnesota are headed for radiocarbon dating.
This pristine specimen #3 comes from Flower Valley near Red Wing. It was found by Shari Albers when she was ten, discovered as her dad worked a field.
Read the full story in Lost Bones #4 (link in my profile).
#Pleistocene #IceAgeMinnesota #RadiocarbonDating
Photo Credit: Purple prairie clover central MN / Kelly Povo
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🐴 #LostBones 🐘🦥🐪 For #FossilFriday, a new series: 12 horse teeth from across Minnesota, each one headed for radiocarbon dating to finally pin down when these animals moved across the state’s post glacial landscape.
Specimen #1 comes from a private collection near Little Sauk, Minnesota — a single horse tooth pulled from a skull found in the black marl of the Sauk River.
How do they fit into the lives or paleo-Minnesotans?
#Pleistocene #Equus #Paleontology #CitizenScience #RadiocarbonDating
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#LostBones #5 which dives deep into this discovery is now up on Substack! https://marcusbrandel.substack.com/p/lost-bones-5-from-the-ashes-a-fire
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#FossilFriday - #LostBones #5 on Substack: "In April 1967, Burgess Construction employee Ivan Brouwer, a dragline operator working along a creek during the construction of Minnesota’s Interstate 94 (I-94) just east of the city of Melrose Minnesota, uncovered a mass of jumbled bones in a peat deposit approximately 15 feet below the original ground surface..."
https://open.substack.com/pub/marcusbrandel/p/lost-bones-5-from-the-ashes-a-fire
Share to support my volunteer effort!
#Writing #HistoricalNonFiction #CitizenScience
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#TatonkaTuesday - Finally getting around to writing a detailed #LostBones Substack about the Melrose Minnesota site - a peat deposit uncovered during MN I-94's construction in 1967.
The largest skull from the site (left) is SMM P67.1.33. At 89.5 cm (35.24 inches) across its horn cores. In life the span could have been nearly 45 inches with its outer sheaths
Blog post coming soon! If you know of other sites - comment!
#Pleistocene #Bisonoccidentalis #CitizenScience #Discovery on #Substack
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🦣🐘🦥🐪 For #FossilFriday: Here is the second of the OG 12 mammoth specimens from New Ulm, MN. Amazingly, split down its length rather than broken into individual plates its chewing surface is missing—but you can see part of the animal’s jaw and tooth root exposed.
Discoveries in New Ulm continue to this day! To read more about the first “dirty dozen” proboscidean finds, check out #LostBones #3 (one of the free articles) on my Substack.
https://marcusbrandel.substack.com/
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🐂#LostBones 🦥🐴🐘🐪 Near Little Sauk, Minnesota, a local naturalist began finding bison bones in the thick marl at the bottom of a river on his property. So, as one does, he started wading in neck-deep water—feeling for bones with his feet!
This is the fourth such Minnesota skeleton I’ve written about here. If you know of others, or have your own skeleton haunting a basement or garage this Halloween #FossilFriday, I’d love to hear the tale!
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#FossilFriday, The Midwest’s #Homotherium! A partial skullcap, the first Homotherium specimen found in Minnesota, was recovered in 2008 from Tyson Spring Cave in Fillmore County.
The find, along with a Cervalces scotti skullcap, was later published by Chris Widga and colleagues in Boreas (Widga et al., 2012).
Images courtesy of: Illinois State Museum (Facebook), Tyson Spring Cave (Website), Widga et al. (2012, Boreas), and Mather (2009, Minnesota Conservation Volunteer)
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For #FossilFriday - another rare Midwest specimen! This Cervalces scotti partial skullcap and antler beam marks the first stag-moose specimen found in Minnesota.
Recovered in 2008 from Tyson Spring Cave the find, along with a Homothereium skullcap, was later identified by Chris Widga and colleagues, and published in Boreas (Widga et al., 2012), expanding the Ice Age megafauna taxa in the Great Lakes region.
#Pleistocene #Caving #Cervalcesscotti #Paleontology #CitizenScience #LostBones
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🐪 #LostBones 🐪 says: Hmmm… A recent visit to the Jackson County Historical Society revealed a camel calcaneus in the collection.
Among specimens from a 2015 study of a section of the Des Moines River, which examined bison, horse, deer, and other skeletal remains it was part of over 800 bones cataloged. But was this camel actually in Minnesota? More to come.
https://www.jchsmn.org
Lost Bones: https://medium.com/@dbrake40
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#goodhuecountyhistory #lostbones #citizenscience #fossilfriday #mnmuseums - The Goodhue County Historical Society tops my list. Not only do they feature some of my favorite megafauna specimens—like bison, mammoth, and giant beaver—but they also offer a wide array of historical, archaeological, and regional displays that highlight the rich cultural and natural heritage of the Red Wing area.
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Happy #fossilfriday. I’ve previously posted about the two most documented terrestrial mammal skeletal elements in the county museums I’ve worked with: #1 (teeth) and #2 (mandibles). Today, we’re moving on to number #3—rib bones. Across nearly thirty museums to date, I’ve come across 32 ribs.
Curious about some of my more surprising finds? Check out the link in my profile to explore my writing spaces on Substack or Medium.
#LostBones #CitizenScience #Pleictocene #VeribrateMammals #Bison
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🫎It’s a #Bisonbison #Alcesalces #FossilFriday! 🐂🐴🐘🦥🐪 These #LostBones skulls come from Kittson County, Minnesota—the northeastern most county in the state, known as “where Minnesota begins.” Many other species and elements are also displayed.
If any of these great specimens are your donations and you have more details, please reach out through the link in my profile.
https://www.facebook.com/KittsonCountyHistoryCenter/
#Pleistocene #Skulls #Palaeontology #Fossils #Shareyourdiscovery #Citizenscience
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🐴 #LostBones #FossilFriday 🐟🐘🦥🐪 In the summer of 2012, students from the Geology Department at Gustavus Adolphus College collected over 800 bones on the Des Moines River near Jackson, Minnesota.
This crunchy but beautiful left horse femur was part of the project and is now housed at the Jackson County Historical Society in Lakefield.
Jackson County: http://www.jchsmn.org
Lost Bones: https://medium.com/@dbrake40#pleistocene #equus #femur #palaeontology #shareyourdiscovery #citizenscience
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🐊 A special back-to-our-roots #Minnesota #FossilFriday 🐴🐟🐘🦥🐪Terminonaris robusta (originally classified as Teleorhinus). A partial snout of Terminonaris was excavated in 1969 at the Hill Annex Mine - the same site where the claw of a dromaeosaur was found in 2015.
The excerpt here was published in a 1983 issue of Minnesota Conservation Volunteer. Vintage paleoart by Ken Sander.
#Cretaceous #Crocodile #Terminonarusrobusta #Palaeontology #CitizenScience
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🐂🐴 #LostBones #FossilFriday 🐟🐘🦥🐪 An in-person, eye-to-orbit visit is always best! This is the Scheirel bison skeleton, currently on display at the Paynesville Area Historical Society. It was reconstructed by William Scheirel after a dredging operation on his property in October 1975.
Originally displayed at Zapf's Leather Shop in Paynesville, the skeleton was donated to the historical society in the mid-1990s.
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🐂🐴 #CountingBones #FossilFriday 🐟🐘🦥🐪 The second most common bison element, above molars, across the state of Minnesota is the mandible.
Lost Bones: https://medium.com/@dbrake40
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🐂 #LostBones #FossilFriday 🐘🦥🐴🐪🍃 This striking left bison femur was discovered in Glenwood, Minnesota, during maintenance of the now-defunct ski hill in Barsness Park. The specimen was donated to the Pope County Historical Society in 1999.
#GlenwoodMN #Pleistocene #Bison #Bisonbison #MinnesotaHistory #Paleontology #CitizenScience
See the link in my profile for more Pleistocene specimens and their stories of discovery and preservation.
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🐂#LostBones #FossilFriday 🦥Another huge historical museum in Minnesota! Pine County History Museum in Askov occupies an entire high school, features its own café, and even houses a full-sized replica of the Wright brothers' airplane. The lone Bison occidentalis skull pictured has a 79cm horn core span. It was unearthed in 1969 near a creek in Pine County.
http://www.pinecountyhistoricalsociety.org
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#Pleistocene #Palaeontology #CitizenScience
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🐂🐴 #LostBones #FossilFriday 🐟🐘🦥🐪 Bison specimens from Martin County, Minnesota. I was short on time, so this museum will need a revisit as I'm certain there are some equine specimens along with the bovine here—can you spot them? 😉
Museum: https://www.mchsmn.org
Lost Bones: https://medium.com/@dbrake40
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#MartinCountyHistory #Pleistocene #Bison #Horse #Palaeontology #Fossils #CitizenScience