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Bachelor party makes impressive fossil discovery in Elephant Butte
KRQE Via Yahoo Odd News ^ | 6/11/14 | Will Lerner

Posted on 06/11/2014 2:45:14 PM PDT by Kartographer

Elephant Butte is a small city in New Mexico that calls itself the “Diamond in the Desert.” As KRQE News 13 reports, it was in this scenic location that a group of friends celebrating a bachelor party made an astonishing find – a giant fossil of the tusk and skull of what’s believed to be a Stegomastodon. According to the University of Nebraska State Museum, Stegomastodons were, “the last surviving member of a lineage of primitive tuskers called ‘gomphotheres’ which first entered North America 15 million years ago.”

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TOPICS: History; Science
KEYWORDS: elephantbutte; godsgravesglyphs; gomphotheres; newmexico; paleontology; stegomastodon
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To: houeto; StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; decimon; 1010RD; 21twelve; 24Karet; ...
;') Thanks houeto.

21 posted on 06/13/2014 5:30:47 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: woofie

A beaut?

22 posted on 06/13/2014 6:22:46 PM PDT by uglybiker (nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-nuh-BATMAN!)
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To: Slings and Arrows

Probably not not-a-ping worthy, but I thought you’d get a kick out of the headline. ;)


23 posted on 06/13/2014 9:56:26 PM PDT by To Hell With Poverty (Ephesians 6:12 becomes more real to me with each news cycle.)
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To: a fool in paradise; To Hell With Poverty

Did somebody ping Sir Mix-A-Lot?


24 posted on 06/14/2014 1:36:12 AM PDT by Slings and Arrows (You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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To: Daus; SunkenCiv

“Worst.Bachelor.Party.Ever”

Agreed. Even the location choice for a Bachelor’s party, not to mention the activities they chose to participate in, indicate guys who are NOT FULLY CLUED IN ON THE CONCEPT.


25 posted on 06/14/2014 8:13:27 AM PDT by wildbill
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To: struggle
Sounds like a really old and fat stripper.

Snaggletoothed, too...

26 posted on 06/14/2014 9:07:09 AM PDT by null and void (Fascists never think they're fascists. They just think everybody should obey them.)
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To: wildbill

:’)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBq_p8ybAHw


27 posted on 06/14/2014 9:15:45 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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