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  2. Fossil Lake (Oregon) - Wikipedia

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    Fossil Lake is located in a remote area of northern Lake County, Oregon. It is 19 miles (31 km) from the unincorporated community of Christmas Valley by road. Fossil Lake is approximately 65 miles (105 km) southeast of Bend and 79 miles (127 km) north of Lakeview by straight-line distance. [1] [2]

  3. Lagerstätte - Wikipedia

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    Well-preserved basal arthropod Opabinia from Burgess Shale Lagerstätte (Middle Cambrian) . A Fossil-Lagerstätte (German: [ˈlaːɡɐˌʃtɛtə], from Lager 'storage, lair' Stätte 'place'; plural Lagerstätten) is a sedimentary deposit that exhibits extraordinary fossils with exceptional preservation—sometimes including preserved soft tissues.

  4. Phoenicopterus copei - Wikipedia

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    The species was erected by Robert Wilson Shufeldt in 1891 based on remains discovered at Fossil Lake, Oregon. [1] In 1955 Hildegarde Howard described the remains of two differently sized flamingos from Lake Manix in California, assigning the smaller remains to a new species and the larger to Phoenicopterus copei .

  5. Human remains 'in various states of decomposition' found on ...

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    Human remains that had been decomposing “for an extended period of time” have been discovered just off of a public hiking trail in Utah, police said. The Washington City Police Department ...

  6. Paleontology in Oregon - Wikipedia

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    These include Fossil Lake, which is the source of Oregon's largest Pleistocene fossil assemblage. Included in this assemblage are typical Pleistocene megafauna , including Columbian mammoths , dire wolves , Ice Age bison , camels , the ground sloths Mylodon and Megatherium , and the short-faced bear Arctodus (which was previously mistaken for ...

  7. Human Remains of At Least 3 People Found Near Minn. Lake ...

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    Authorities said the remains were discovered in Gould Township within a "known cultural site" Human Remains of At Least 3 People Found Near Minn. Lake Believed to Be Hundreds of Years Old Skip to ...

  8. La Brea Tar Pits - Wikipedia

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    Small tar pit. La Brea Tar Pits is an active paleontological research site in urban Los Angeles. Hancock Park was formed around a group of tar pits where natural asphalt (also called asphaltum, bitumen, or pitch; brea in Spanish) has seeped up from the ground for tens of thousands of years.

  9. Utah hiker stumbles across human remains in 'various states ...

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    The remains were found near the Bone Wash Trail and Elephant Arch hiking areas in Washington city near the Arizona border about 125 miles northwest of Las Vegas, ...