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photo of black bear skeleton in El Capitan cave

Figure 13. Fossil black bear skeleton in El Capitan Cave, Prince of Wales Island is about 10,750 years old. Caves in southeast Alaska have yielded a rich vertebrate fossil record of mammals, birds, and fish. Some fossils are more than 50,000 years old. Photo by Tim Heaton.


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