美国国家公共电台 NPR--Treasure hunters look for mammoth bones in NYC river

（单词翻译）

Treasure hunters look for mammoth¹ bones in NYC river

Transcript²

A legend has spread tha artifacts found in Alaska were donated in the 1940s to the American Museum of Natural History, and the lower quality bones were allegedly dumped in the river.

LEILA FADEL, HOST:

Good morning. I'm Leila Fadel. Is there a valuable trove³ of prehistoric⁴ mammoth bones in New York City's East River? Maybe. And that's good enough for some amateur treasure hunters. The story goes that artifacts found in Alaska were donated in the 1940s to the American Museum of Natural History. The lower quality bones were allegedly dumped in the river, but the museum says it has no record of that ever happening, throwing cold water on the treasure hunt. It's MORNING EDITION.