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Old Crow River point bars

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What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Crystals and mineralsCrystals and minerals

Also reported: woolly mammoth, horse, giant camel, giant beaver, ground sloth, caribou.

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Stephanie Clifford from Arlington, VA, USA (CC BY 2.0).

Why this spot

Pleistocene

The Canadian Museum of Nature describes fossils reworked each spring onto Old Crow River point bars in unglaciated Beringia; in 2016 a hunter found a mammoth femur about 100 km upriver from Old Crow.View source →

Before you go

Hazards noted for this site.

very remote fly-in areaCold water, bears

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