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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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1 posted on 06/11/2014 2:45:14 PM PDT by Kartographer
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To: CedarDave; LegendHasIt; leapfrog0202; Santa Fe_Conservative; DesertDreamer; OneWingedShark; ...

NM Ping!


2 posted on 06/11/2014 2:46:17 PM PDT by Kartographer ("We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.")
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To: Kartographer

Sounds like a really old and fat stripper.


3 posted on 06/11/2014 2:48:03 PM PDT by struggle
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To: Kartographer

It’s the symbol of the NM GOP when John Dendahl was in charge.


4 posted on 06/11/2014 2:51:14 PM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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To: Kartographer

The found an elephant butt in Elephant Butte !


5 posted on 06/11/2014 2:54:05 PM PDT by TurboZamboni (Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.-JFK)
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To: Kartographer

I’ve seen some butts that are beauts!


6 posted on 06/11/2014 2:56:15 PM PDT by Huskrrrr
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To: Kartographer

The jokes just write themselves.


7 posted on 06/11/2014 2:56:21 PM PDT by BuckeyeTexan (There are those that break and bend. I'm the other kind. ~Steve Earle)
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To: Kartographer

The groom didn’t know the bride was invited.


8 posted on 06/11/2014 3:00:24 PM PDT by Dexter Morgan (Everyone hides who they are.)
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To: Huskrrrr

its a beaut


9 posted on 06/11/2014 3:12:54 PM PDT by woofie
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To: struggle

I wish FR had a “LIKE” button! LOL! That is so cool!


10 posted on 06/11/2014 3:20:05 PM PDT by Monkey Face (I'm honestly convinced that women don't pass gas. They just hold it in and it comes out as DRAMA!)
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To: Kartographer

Very cool. Thanks for posting.


11 posted on 06/11/2014 3:47:10 PM PDT by Liberty Valance (Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
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To: Kartographer

It’s time for a new name. Wasn’t there a Beaver College that finally let go of the great name of Beaver and switched to something less giggle-inducing?


12 posted on 06/11/2014 3:49:00 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: Kartographer

Worst.Bachelor.Party.Ever


13 posted on 06/11/2014 4:46:07 PM PDT by Daus
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To: lee martell

Students at Beaver College were renowned for the diligence of their pursuits of personal edification. They worked like ———— !


14 posted on 06/11/2014 4:53:55 PM PDT by Elsiejay
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To: Kartographer

What were they doing in an elephant’s butte in the first place? Not very sanity and has little light with which to see.


15 posted on 06/11/2014 5:35:49 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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16 posted on 06/11/2014 11:10:27 PM PDT by LaybackLenny (Sarah Palin - Last Man Standing (Ironic, ain't it?))
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To: Kartographer

Okay, what were they doing loooking up the elephant’s...oh, never mind.


17 posted on 06/11/2014 11:18:43 PM PDT by RichInOC (No! BAD Rich! (What'd I say?))
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To: Kartographer

Cool!
Thanks for the ping.

I’ve found many common invertebrate fossils in that area, but nothing this neat or significant.


18 posted on 06/12/2014 11:00:11 AM PDT by LegendHasIt
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To: SunkenCiv

Hard to believe you have not been pinged to THIS!


19 posted on 06/12/2014 1:13:32 PM PDT by houeto (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate)
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To: Slings and Arrows

Hold muh beer and watch this fossilized elephant butte...


20 posted on 06/13/2014 8:41:32 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (The new witchhunt: "Do you NOW, . . . or have you EVER , . . supported traditional marriage?")
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