excavated
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The U.S. is the only country where fossils excavated on private land can be sold, prompting a long-running debate about whether dinosaurs should be privately owned.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026
Gus was discovered in South Dakota’s fossil-rich Hell Creek Formation and excavated between 2021 and 2023, followed by three years of lab work to prep, assemble, and mount the bones.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 14, 2026
More than 90% of the fossils excavated from the site were dinosaur fragments.
From BBC ● Jul. 10, 2026
The research centers on specimens excavated from the Mazon Creek fossil beds in northern Illinois, southwest of Chicago.
From Barron's ● Jun. 18, 2026
These mounds had been flagged as possible ruins for nearly a century but never excavated because they seemed to have no valuable gold or ceramic objects.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
