#LostBones #FossilFriday! 🐂🦥🐴🐘🐪🐟🍃 Brown bear in Minnesota?! This specimen, discovered during a visit to Crow Wing County, was subsequently transferred to the Science Museum of Minnesota. identified as a left patella (kneecap) from a modern brown bear (Ursus arctos).

Tags include the notation “Maryland and Mississippi” – referencing construction in St. Paul from the 1960s.

www.crowwinghistory.org

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