The basket dates to 885-1020 A.D. and likely was used by Ancestral Puebloans to carry items such as food and small children.

By the 1960s, radiation detection technology had advanced to produce an updated version of the 1950s Babbel Model 600A.

These hind leg bones belonged to a possibly 70-foot long sauropod weighing more than 25 tons. The femur had been buried in an ancient river deposit and migrated to water level in a modern river.

At this time in the Cretaceous Period, much of western North America was inundated with a large seaway. Portions of the Colorado Plateau were repeatedly underwater during Earth’s long geologic history, as we see from the sediments and aquatic fossils preserved throughout the region.