Moncayo drove a stick into the creek bed and churned the mud until the water grew clouded by sediment.

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And after one particular pass along the mud on the lake bed, there was a sudden, ecstatic moment of discovery.

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As she stood in her small closet undressing for bed, Elizabeth Shaler was annoyed to find some mud left behind by a running shoe that she now put away.

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