A
massive rib bone was yanked out of a pile of wet dirt while contractor
Daniel Lapoint Jr. was digging up his neighbor's garden with an
excavator.
It looked like a scene straight out of
Jurassic Park, but as Daniel and property owner Eric Witzke kept digging
they found 42 bones total — and they weren’t dinosaur bones.
They were from a mastodon. It’s the five-ton ice age animal that dates back more than 10,000 years.
The
two men tracked down a paleontologist from the University of Michigan,
which is where they’ll donate the bones later this month.
The
expert thinks the bones belong to a 37-year-old, male mastodon that has
likely been buried underground between 10,000 and 14,000 years.
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