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    Default history of the whale bone near double lines

    Does anyone know the history of the whale bone near the double lines? When it was discovered? Were the broken pieces actually broken or were they found that way? I saw a U-tube video about a whale bone that was recovered out of Devil's so where was that one?

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    I first saw it in late 2003 and it was 2? chunks on the ground at that point, although IIRC people were talking about it being broken off recently. I'll go see if I can find that youtube video....
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    Quote Originally Posted by Rich View Post
    I first saw it in late 2003 and it was 2? chunks on the ground at that point, although IIRC people were talking about it being broken off recently. I'll go see if I can find that youtube video....
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    As in you're saying it wasn't recently broken like everyone's been saying?


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    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Kxms3pr2NA

    Is this the video you are talking about? I believe the footage at 2:40 is the double lines whale bone.

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ID:	12208I ask because I have been looking at it on the maps but never seen it. I went for the first time Saturday and took these pics. The vertebra had two of its 3 exposed wings broken off in the past (I say this because the edges are rounded over and the coloration in the crack is same as the exterior of the bone), as well as a new looking stress crack (probably natural erosion). I saw Wes’s video and was wondering if it’s the same vertebra or a third one? The Double line vertebra seems still embedded in the wall and in the video both wings seem broken off. I have heard so many different stories in the past two weeks and was wondering what is the truth? For that matter what is the natural erosion process?

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    Quote Originally Posted by rddvet View Post
    As in you're saying it wasn't recently broken like everyone's been saying?
    Oh wait. Double lines nevrmind.


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    It seems that the professor in Wes' video expected to go excavate some more of those from the cave. Further it would appear that Wes and company brought one out for the professor to examine. I would guess that it sits at that natural history prof's office or display somewhere other than where it was found. There is a smaller one in the case in the office at Ginnie either where the waivers are in that rack or the first counter with cash registers. Looking at MA's pic it looks to me that it is more broken than the last time I saw it which was earlier this winter. the "horn" that has the grey-ish ashy substance laying under it was intact. Natural breakdown?.... maybe,... somebody handling it?..... also maybe but from your pics it doesn't look like there are any handprints on it.


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    Bird took me to see it in 1994 or 1995. That was my first time there. I vaguely recall it was in pieces back then.

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    Quote Originally Posted by T. Bix View Post
    Attachment 12209This is an old image but what it has always looked like as long as I've been around up to earlier this winter.
    My avatar image was taken about four years or so ago. If I remember there was a issue back then, before my avatar image, that someone had sawed off a piece or removed a piece from the cave and it was returned....I think it was well discussed on this forum. Bill

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