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Kansas

Lower Kansas River sandbars near Kaw Point

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What you could find

Reported finds from this ground.

Fossils

Fossils

Shark teeth

Shark teeth

Also reported: mammoth and mastodon, giant beaver, bison.

Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Partonez (CC BY-SA 4.0), Dominik Vogt (CC BY-SA 3.0).

Why this spot

Pleistocene

Friends of the Kaw report canoeists regularly find chocolate-brown Ice Age bone on sandbars as the Kaw nears the Missouri, where faster water scours the channel, with mastodon, mammoth, sabertooth and giant beaver among finds.View source →

Before you go

Hazards noted for this site.

current, soft sand, snags, rising water

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