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For two weeks, Denver Museum of Nature & Science crews have been pulling out treasures: five or more mastodons, a bison skull with 7-foot horn span, a couple of Columbian mammoths, a giant Jefferson ground sloth (the state's first), complete deer with antlers, salamanders, snails, two more bison — a "prehistoric zoo," as local headlines read.

Scientists here are giddy with excitement.

"Every day we've been making flashy discoveries,"


said Kirk Johnson, the museum's chief curator. "Every day it's something new."
"Every freaking day," reverentially echoes Ian Miller, curator of paleontology.

http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_16608162