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  2. Clovis culture - Wikipedia

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    Clovis culture. The Clovis culture is an archaeological culture from the Paleoindian period of North America, spanning around 13,050 to 12,750 years Before Present (BP). [1] The type site is Blackwater Draw locality No. 1 near Clovis, New Mexico, where stone tools were found alongside the remains of Columbian mammoths in 1929. [2]

  3. Paleontology in New Mexico - Wikipedia

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    The location of the state of New Mexico. Paleontology in New Mexico refers to paleontological research occurring within or conducted by people from the U.S. state of New Mexico. The fossil record of New Mexico is exceptionally complete and spans almost the entire stratigraphic column. [1] More than 3,300 different kinds of fossil organisms have ...

  4. Southwestern Native Aquatic Resources and Recovery Center

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    The Southwestern Native Aquatic Resources and Recovery Center, formerly known as Dexter National Fish Hatchery & Technology Center, is a U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service facility dedicated to fish culture techniques for threatened and endangered fishes of the American Southwest. Located in Dexter, New Mexico, it is the only federal facility in ...

  5. History of New Mexico - Wikipedia

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    Human occupation of New Mexico stretches back at least 11,000 years to the hunter-gatherer Clovis culture. [2] They left evidence of their campsites and stone tools. After the invention of agriculture, the land was inhabited by the Ancestral Puebloans, who built houses out of stone or adobe bricks.

  6. Lake Xochimilco - Wikipedia

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    Lake Xochimilco, in a detail from the 1847 Bruff/Disturnell map The Valley of Mexico at the time of the Spanish conquest, c. 1519. Lake Xochimilco (Spanish pronunciation: [sotʃiˈmilko]; Nahuatl languages: Xōchimīlco, pronounced [ʃoːtʃiˈmiːlko] listen ⓘ) is an ancient endorheic lake, located in the present-day Borough of Xochimilco in southern Mexico City.

  7. Rio Grande cutthroat trout - Wikipedia

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    The Rio Grande cutthroat trout (Oncorhynchus virginalis virginalis) [2], a member of the family Salmonidae, is found in northern New Mexico and southern Colorado in tributaries of the Rio Grande. [3][4] It is one of 9 subspecies [2] of the Rocky Mountain cutthroat trout [2][5][6][7] native to the western United States, and is the state fish of ...

  8. Chinlea - Wikipedia

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    Species. † Chinlea sorenseni[1] Chinlea (middle left) compared to some other prehistoric fish. Chinlea is an extinct genus of late Triassic Mawsoniid coelacanth fish found in and named after the Chinle Formation that crops out in the southwestern states of Arizona and New Mexico. The word “Chinle” comes from the Navajo word meaning ...

  9. Extremely rare "doomsday fish" found off California coast - AOL

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    Updated August 15, 2024 at 1:06 PM. Kayakers and snorkelers exploring the Southern California coast spotted an extremely rare oarfish, nicknamed a "doomsday fish" since they are seen in some parts ...