Happy #Minnestoa #FossilFriday 
These bison remains are part of a bone bed discovered east of Melrose, MN in April 1967 by Ivan Brouwer, a dragline operator working near a creek along Interstate 94, Ivan shared some of the bones with his friend Robert Freeman Sr. Rumor has it that Robert Sr. and his son planned to reconstruct a full skeleton from these bones.
The existence and whereabouts of this skeleton remain under investigation today!
#LostBones:
https://medium.com/@dbrake40/lost-bones-1-burial-ground-13fee371997c
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This weekend (10-14 april) is the Dutch National bee count, where citizens are encouraged to count bees, wasps and hoverflies in their garden or neighbourhood. Knowledge of bee population is important because 80% of edible crops and almost 90% of wild plants are pollinated by bees and other insects. In the Netherlands 34 bee species have already disappeared and half of the 360 species are endangered.
In a 1945, C. R. Stauffer documented the discovery of a tarsal bone from an ancient horse, possibly Equus caballus, uncovered in October 1939 in glacial deposits 31 feet below the surface during well drilling in Marshall, MN. 
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