Las Vegas pool build unearths bones from ice age
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Publishing date:Apr 30, 2021 • 16 hours ago • 1 minute read • Join the conversation
Workers building a pool in a Las Vegas backyard unearthed bones believed to be from the last ice age.
Workers building a pool in a Las Vegas backyard unearthed bones believed to be from the last ice age. PHOTO BY FILE PHOTO /Getty Images
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A Las Vegas couple who wanted to build a pool to help them cool off ended up finding bones from the ice age in their backyard.
Matt Perkins said he and his husband were woken up by police on Monday after workers dug up a set of bones about five feet underground in an area where they wanted their pool built outside their home.
“It kind of freaked us out,” Perkins told the Las Vegas Review-Journal.
The officers took the bones for inspection and later determined they were too large to belong to a human.
“What we found was when they (the workers) were excavating the backyard pool, they were cutting through ice age layers of sediment and sure enough they had a skeleton of an animal,” Perkins told ABC-affiliated KTNV.
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According to a Nevada paleontologist, the bones — believed to be the skeleton of a horse — were found in an area of soil that is at most 14,000 years old, dating back to Earth’s most recent ice age.
“It was an actual skeleton,” Nevada Science Center Director of Research Joshua Bonde told Las Vegas Review-Journal. “The bones were in the leg position attached to one another, which is actually really rare preservation for that area.”
He estimated the animal died between 6,000 to 9,000 years ago, and said that to be considered a fossil it would have to be at least 10,000 years old.
Perkins’ home is about five kilometres from from Tule Springs Fossil Beds National Monument, where many fossils from the last ice age have been found, the Las Vegas Review-Journal reported.
While it’s rare to for homeowners to find fossils in the area, Bonde said more will probably be found as real estate development leads to more excavations.
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Workers building a pool in a Las Vegas backyard unearthed bones believed to be from the last ice age.
Workers building a pool in a Las Vegas backyard unearthed bones believed to be from the last ice age. PHOTO BY FILE PHOTO /Getty Images
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A Las Vegas couple who wanted to build a pool to help them cool off ended up finding bones from the ice age in their backyard.
Matt Perkins said he and his husband were woken up by police on Monday after workers dug up a set of bones about five feet underground in an area where they wanted their pool built outside their home.
“It kind of freaked us out,” Perkins told the Las Vegas Review-Journal.
The officers took the bones for inspection and later determined they were too large to belong to a human.
“What we found was when they (the workers) were excavating the backyard pool, they were cutting through ice age layers of sediment and sure enough they had a skeleton of an animal,” Perkins told ABC-affiliated KTNV.
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According to a Nevada paleontologist, the bones — believed to be the skeleton of a horse — were found in an area of soil that is at most 14,000 years old, dating back to Earth’s most recent ice age.
“It was an actual skeleton,” Nevada Science Center Director of Research Joshua Bonde told Las Vegas Review-Journal. “The bones were in the leg position attached to one another, which is actually really rare preservation for that area.”
He estimated the animal died between 6,000 to 9,000 years ago, and said that to be considered a fossil it would have to be at least 10,000 years old.
Perkins’ home is about five kilometres from from Tule Springs Fossil Beds National Monument, where many fossils from the last ice age have been found, the Las Vegas Review-Journal reported.
While it’s rare to for homeowners to find fossils in the area, Bonde said more will probably be found as real estate development leads to more excavations.
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Las Vegas pool build unearths bones from ice age
A Las Vegas couple who wanted to build a pool to help them cool off ended up finding bones from the ice age in their backyard.