Denver Post

Paleontology experts from across the country were in Pitkin County over the weekend to examine the Ice Age bones and sediment recovered during the past week at what is being described as one of the richest scientific discoveries in Colorado history.

On Saturday, crews found the bison's skull and horns, which were at first mistaken for the tusks of a mammoth or mastodon. With a span of horns more than 6 feet long, the bison was twice the size of those that came later. It was found in sediment estimated at 30,000 to 50,000 years old, which could mean the site has fossils from a range of ages, according to the museum.

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