Skeleton unearthed by Yukon couple may be 10,000 years old

APTN National News
The remains – of what may be a prehistoric bison skeleton – has been unearthed in a Whitehorse subdivision .

It’s an usual find – but for Yukon paleontologists it’s exciting.

They say it will help explain what happened to this particular species of bison – after the Ice Age – and before they disappeared about 400 years ago.

APTN’s Shirley Mclean has more.

 

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