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Curators from the NHMU discover bighorn sheep bones in an area where they are no longer found

Kevin Cody
Apr 7, 2023

Pile of bighorn sheep bones found at the bottom of a cave in western Utah. Photo: Courtesy of the Natural History Museum of Utah.

UTAH — The Natural History Museum of Utah’s Curator of Archeology Tyler Faith and Chief Curator and Curator of Paleontology Randall Irmis, with the help of a caver team, discovered a pile of bighorn sheep bones at the bottom of a cave in western Utah. Bighorn sheep are no longer found in the area, posing a number of questions on how they got there and when they were deposited.

Last weekend, NHMU's Tyler Faith & Randy Irmis, along with a caver team, worked in a cave in western Utah to look for #fossils from the past 10,000 years. At the bottom was a pile of bighorn sheep bones, a species that no longer lives in the area!@BLMUtah #BLMPaleo #FossilFriday pic.twitter.com/bMBN4sqlWK
— NHMU (@NHMU) April 7, 2023
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Like many transplants to Utah, Kevin started his journey to Park City as a ski instructor in 2014 and fell in love with the mountains enough to stay. A skier since the age of 2 and a half, he still gets excited about carving turns down the slopes and hopping into the powder on snow days. Kevin's passion for storytelling and photography led him to a second bachelor's degree focused on communications and fine art photography from the University of Utah. Paired with his first undergrad in ecology from Oklahoma State University, Kevin particularly enjoys writing environmental and nature stories. In his spare time, you can usually find him in his jeep looking for wildlife and landscapes to photograph.

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