“They walk over and they see the machinery and they look around and they see these bison skulls. And they go, ‘Whoa, these are bison occidentalis, these are extinct bison,’”recalled ...

This ice age bison skull with an embedded spear point is part of the personal collection Jim Pollard used to open a natural history museum in Blue Earth. Pollard has been collecting fossils for ...

I carved this skull out of 6 gallons of epoxy resin and Walnut Burl. I then tried to duplicate the skull by casting it in silicone and making a mold of the wood section but that turned out to be ...

The Cussac cave has more than 1,000 ancient carvings, including horses, bison, rhinos, ibex and stylised feminine forms - Copyright AFP Christophe ARCHAMBAULT The ...

The city of Marbella on Spain’s Costa del Sol may be best known for pristine beaches and package holidays, but a recently announced discovery at the Coto Correa archaeological site is a reminder ...

Archaeologists originally stored nearly 200 bison skulls in plaster or burlap casts. But decades later, many of those casts were fragmenting, threatening the remains inside. Over several months, the ...

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On a recent Wednesday, a volunteer in a white lab coat pounded away at a bison skull in the museum's fishbowl laboratory where visitors can witness paleontology in action. Nearby, two workers ...