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Fossil collector may have found prehistoric bone

A fossil collector may have found a prehistoric bone with art work on it in Florida.

Last year, James Kennedy cleaned off a 15-inch bone he had found two years earlier. The lines on it looked like a four-inch etching of a walking mammoth with tusks.

University of Florida researchers examined the etching with an electron microscope. Their tests showed it was genuine....




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