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Elk Skeleton Indication Of Good Hunting Long Ago

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The well-preserved skeleton of a pre-hisotric elk found in a lake in far northern Wisconsin isn’t pre-historic after all.Carbon dating shows the elk to be from the time of Columbus, about 500 years old, instead of 10,000 years old as was first believed.Mike Simonson reports from Superior…

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