Digging Those Dinosaurs
Six-year-old Dana Wille buzzes with excitement as she watches her father carefully brush dirt away from a dull black object embedded in the ground.
Darker than the crumbly gray rock around it, it's smooth and hard and shaped like a dog bone. Only it's bigger. A lot bigger. Indeed, as the father-daughter team slowly dust away more debris, it becomes clear that it is a femur, a leg bone, from one of the largest animals ever to roam Earth — the 80-foot-long, plant-eating apatosaurus..........
USA Today
Darker than the crumbly gray rock around it, it's smooth and hard and shaped like a dog bone. Only it's bigger. A lot bigger. Indeed, as the father-daughter team slowly dust away more debris, it becomes clear that it is a femur, a leg bone, from one of the largest animals ever to roam Earth — the 80-foot-long, plant-eating apatosaurus..........
USA Today
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