Riverbluff Cave, Natural science museum in Springfield, Missouri, United States.
Riverbluff Cave is a natural science museum in Springfield that displays fossils, minerals, and specimens collected from an adjacent cave system. The exhibition spaces present findings from paleontological studies that revealed the site's importance for understanding ancient life.
The cave was discovered in 2001 during road construction and proved to be one of North America's oldest known fossil sites. The deposits contain remains of animals from a period hundreds of thousands of years ago.
Visitors can work on fossil reconstruction projects during their visit, handling actual dinosaur bones to assemble a complete skeleton. This hands-on experience connects people directly to the creatures that lived here long ago.
The museum offers free admission, making it accessible to everyone. The cave system itself is not open to the public as it remains active for scientific research.
Skeletal imprints and claw marks from extinct Short-Faced Bears show where these powerful animals slept and nested within the cave. Such preserved behavioral traces are rarely found in fossil sites.
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