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Discovering Our Past: New Film Looks at Ozarks Cave, Other American Landmarks
August 13, 2014
Scott Harvey
KSMU
It’s a cool 58 degrees inside Riverbluff Cave, where paleontologist and executive director for the Missouri Institute of Natural Science Matt Forir shines his flashlight on the claw mark of the now extinct giant short-faced bear.

Henry the headless triceratops coming to Riverbluff museum
April 1, 2014
Wes Johnson
Springfield News-Leader
Was Henry's head ripped off by a hungry T-Rex?
That's a strong possibility according to Matt Forir, director of the Missouri Institute of Natural Science at Riverbluff Cave. Over the next year, Forir and a team of volunteers will be assembling the fossilized bones of Henry — one of the largest Triceratops dinosaurs ever unearthed.
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