4th-grade 'paleontologists' find mastodon hair
Tuesday, May 24, 2011 - 13:30
in Paleontology & Archaeology
Earlier this year, Linda Azaroff's fourth-grade class received a 2.2-pound box containing what one student described as a "clump of dirt." But this wasn't just any dirt — it was sediment, or matrix, collected from a backyard in Hyde Park, N.Y., in 2000, where a project to deepen a backyard pond uncovered the remains of a mastodon.