#lostbones #FossilFriday ๐๐ฆฅ๐ด๐๐ช๐๐ This fragile elk antler tine, from the Melrose Area Historical Society collection, is part of a jumble of bones found east of Melrose by a construction worker in April 1967.
The worker was operating a drag line in a peat bog about a mile east of Melrose during the construction of Minnesota Interstate 94.
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๐ฆ#LostBones #FossilFriday ๐ฆ๐๐ฆฅ๐ด๐๐ช๐๐ You can still find remnants of elk (Cervus canadensis) in Minnesota. They were common, in the thousands, up until the 1800s.
The Ojibwe called them omashkooz, and the Dakota called them heศรกka.
This gorgeous antler specimen was found near Motley, Minnesota, in 1972 and has been housed for the past 50 years at SCSU in St. Cloud.
www.stcloudstate.edu/biology
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Marcus Brandel