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[7]: 242 [10]: 154 Con artist George Hull created the Cardiff Giant hoax after an argument with Henry Turk, a preacher who taught that the biblical giants had literally walked the Earth. [7]: 245–249 PT Barnum commissioned a copy of the hoaxed giant, after a plan to have an 18-foot tall "skeleton prepared from various bones" failed.
With the same temperature calibration, an aspartic acid measurement on the Haverty skeleton resulted in an inferred age of greater than 50,000 years (Austin, 1976, p. 5; Masters, pers commun). By contrast, the four 14 C determinations on the Haverty skeletons by the radiocarbon laboratories point to a middle Holocene age in the range between ca ...
La Brea Woman was a human whose remains were found in the La Brea Tar Pits in Los Angeles, California. The remains, first discovered in the pits in 1914, are the partial skeleton of a woman. [2] At around 18–25 years of age at death, she has been dated at 10,220–10,250 years BP (Before Present). [3]
As far as archeological finds go - this one is pretty rare. "A 3,200-year-old skeleton with cancer. ... The remains of the wealthy man, believed to be around 30 when he died, were found close to ...
A skeleton has been unearthed on California's second-highest peak, Mount Williamson. The remains were retrieved by the Inyo County Sheriff's Department Wednesday in the hopes of determining the ...
LEFLORE COUNTY (KFSM) -- A LeFlore County family found a coffin with a real human skeleton inside of it in their barn near Panama on January 30th, deputies said. Authorities were called to the ...
Accidents caused by the tule fog are the leading cause of weather-related deaths in California; visibility is usually less than an eighth of a mile (about 600 feet or 183–200 m), but can be less than 10 feet (3 m).
Fossilized skeleton of the Miocene pronghorn Merycodus †Merycodus; Mesalia †Mesocyon †Mesodma – tentative report †Mesohippus; Mesophyllum †Mesoreodon †Metalopex †Metarhinus †Metatomarctus; Mounted fossilized skeleton of the Miocene-Pleistocene manatee relative Metaxytherium †Metaxytherium †Miacis †Michenia