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Archive Home > 2007 > April > 22 > High Desert teems with fossils

High Desert teems with fossils

Area's fertile ground has recently yielded important relics from the dinosaur age

By Rachael Scarborough King / The Bulletin
April 22, 2007

MITCHELL - Digging her toes into the steep, slippery side of a sagebrush- and wildflower-covered hill, Ellen Morris Bishop peered at a stream of loose rocks.

Picking up a yellowish, dictionary-sized rock, she displayed the streaky imprint of a 40-million-year-old plant.

"Now here we have a....

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