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Tule Springs fossils attracting paleontologists from around world

By Henry Brean
LAS VEGAS REVIEW-JOURNAL
Oct. 31, 2011

The rich fossil beds of Tule Springs at the northern edge of the valley will get the full rock-star treatment this week , as paleontologists from around the world gather in Las Vegas.

Some 1,500 fossil researchers are here for the annual conference of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology. The weeklong event features seminars and field trips dedicated to the Upper Las Vegas Wash, where fossils have been found of mammoths, lions, camels and other animals that roamed the area during the last ice age and the ice age before that.

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