Utah "paleontologists" find ancient horse

[HollyHoly]

An Ancient Horse Is Unearthed In A Utah Backyard

you guys are gonna love this.. so the family in question is building something? in their backyard that requires extensive excavation up to a depth of seven feet!!


Some hole huh? anyway they find a whole entire ice age horse except the head... whoops! see it happened like this

Paleontologists last week identified the skeleton of a horse from the ice age in Lehi, Utah — a particularly unusual discovery given that much of the western part of the state was underwater until about 14,000 years ago. Buried for thousands of years beneath seven feet of sandy clay, the remains were discovered only when the Hill family began moving dirt around their backyard to build a retaining wall and plant some grass.

< Yeah right


that's some wall!!! so anyway

“She came in and said, “I found a skeleton in the backyard and I don’t know what to do,’” Mr. Hunter recalled. “I replied, ‘I do.’” Last week he and a team from the museum’s lab, where they study dinosaur fossils, went to her home.

so if you find a bone tell your local paleontologist and he'll send a team down there Johnny on the spot!



all neat and tidy fully articulated perfect
so it turns out that according to Mr Hunter, paleontologist Utah was covered with a lake during the ice age but somehow this horse found a way to die here

Mr. Hunter did not know how the animal died, but he has a theory. Utah was covered during the last ice age by Lake Bonneville, a prehistoric lake. (The Great Salt Lake as it currently exists is a remnant of Lake Bonneville.)
Perhaps the horse was trying to escape from a predator and ran into the lake, Mr. Hunter surmised. “Horses can swim,” he said. “Maybe it got trapped out there, drowned and sank to the bottom.”

so our experts are concluding that a horse with a cancerous ankle fleeing from a predator swam to the middle of Utah when it was a lake (sounds more like an ocean ) and then died in the Lake /Ocean where it stayed all curled up perfectly articulated in what is now dry land, the Hills backyard
So it turns out that there wasn't enough time for this horse to fossilze so we have to dry these bones for the museum

The skeleton was taken back to the museum last week, where it will be cataloged, preserved and repaired. Unlike with dinosaurs, the horse’s bones were dehydrated and not yet fossils. Fossilized minerals in bone turn to stone, but the horse was not old enough for that to have happened. That posed a problem for Mr. Hunter’s team. “If they dry too quickly, they will crack,” he said. “You have to cure them slowly.”

???? Oh rilly ?? first they dehydrate then they fossilize ,gotcha


additional facts horse is about the size of a Shetland pony (biggest damn Shetland I ever saw)



But its all good news for for the Hills because they're gonna get a fat tax break and all the neighborhood kids want to become paleontologists

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Date: 2020-03-07 12:18:22
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that's some wall!!!

Indeed. No idea why you'd need to dig so deep to build a wall. Frost line is about 30 inches down according to this, for what it's worth.

 

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There are two cases: this family fears an invasion of the Mongols or must have an excessive love of privacy

 

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Indeed. No idea why you'd need to dig so deep to build a wall. Frost line is about 30 inches down according to this, for what it's worth.

see that s the other thing permits, but they excavated their whole yard! oh yeah and to plant grass ? top soils is so overrated

There are two cases: this family fears an invasion of the Mongols or must have an excessive love of privacy

looks like theyre building an underground bunker and hooray!! we found a sweet skeleton that just might end up paying for it!! after said tax breaks kick in! Take that Mongols!

 

[Gabriel]

in their backyard that requires extensive excavation up to a depth of seven feet!!

Found it exactly where the deep end was going to be on that Utah pool you can’t use most of the year in Lehi.

does anyone think that horse skeleton is small? I am no horse expert but I wasn’t expecting it to be much bigger than the person in the photo.

 

[HollyHoly]

More news on the Utah dinky horse, turns out it was a domestic post Spanish Conquest horse Oh nevermind its a Modern Horse

 

[Oracle]

The depth is understandable of a dig for a retaining wall as they would need to get down to bedrock for the foundation if its a major one, but like already said the amount cleared looks more like for a swimming pool.

You've got me thinking now where did the breed of tiny horses come from that we see around today? They are the size of a dog.
I've never seen them mentioned in any historical books I've read, and never knew they existed until I saw some in a paddock in Australia.

 

[HollyHoly]

The depth is understandable of a dig for a retaining wall as they would need to get down to bedrock for the foundation if its a major one, but like already said the amount cleared looks more like for a swimming pool.

You've got me thinking now where did the breed of tiny horses come from that we see around today? They are the size of a dog.
I've never seen them mentioned in any historical books I've read, and never knew they existed until I saw some in a paddock in Australia.

I am currently constructing 2 bombshell horse info threads Ill try to answer the dinky horse question in one of them