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Perhaps someone can cite when this was given.  I noticed it yesterday when I was in the Gems and Minerals Hall:

I thought some of the docents might be interested in this. I have not kept my docent mailing list up to date. Can one of you forward this Newsweek article to the other docents? click on link below to view article in Newsweek: http://www.newsweek.com/birds-are-dinosaurs-how-did-they-get-here-291256   Sue Upshaw

THE AMERICAN MASTODON may not have   been hunted to extinction. Northern mastodons may have died off as   forests disappeared in the last glacial period.   Meat-hungry humanity has long been  suspected of hunting North American megafauna to extinction, but new  research suggests that Homo sapiens may have gotten a bum rap — at least when it comes to the demise of the American mastodon.     Research published last week in the  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences argues that the ancient  beast started to disappear from what is now Alaska and Canada’s Yukon  Territory long before humans ever set foot on the continent. One key reason for the confusion,  authors say, is that specimen contamination has rendered decades of  carbon-14 dating research potentially inaccurate.     “It’s a concern,” said Yukon  paleontologist Grant Zazula, lead author of the study. “A lot of the  radiocarbon dates that are out there in the literature are probably  problematic.”  Although it is still

29 docents attended the annual holiday lunch, this year in San Pedro, on December 9, 2014. View first to see images with captions then double click on first image to enlarge  To see earlier posts, click on older posts at bottom of page: Our special guests Jesse, Tiffany and Liz  Salmon option Chicken option  Sherry and her raffle Christy Bill Sue Special thanks to VP and field trip organizer Maria Add caption   Joyce Chuck Nic Ralph