Waukesha Fossils
Clip: Season 1 Episode 29 | 7m 47sVideo has Closed Captions
An incredible discovery opens a window onto the Great Lakes region’s prehistoric past.
When you picture a fossil, you might think of a gigantic skeleton of a dinosaur. But in a Waukesha, Wisconsin quarry, two amateur paleontologists made an amazing discovery. They unearthed ultra-rare fossils that had been buried for more than 400 million years and opened a window onto the Great Lakes region’s prehistoric past.
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Waukesha Fossils
Clip: Season 1 Episode 29 | 7m 47sVideo has Closed Captions
When you picture a fossil, you might think of a gigantic skeleton of a dinosaur. But in a Waukesha, Wisconsin quarry, two amateur paleontologists made an amazing discovery. They unearthed ultra-rare fossils that had been buried for more than 400 million years and opened a window onto the Great Lakes region’s prehistoric past.
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