AMAZING! Woolly Mammoth Found In Michigan Farm Field.
James Bristol and a friend were digging in his southern Michigan soybean field when they unearthed a skull and two tasks along with numerous vertebrae. The find Thursday afternoon represents one of the more complete sets of woolly mammoth bones ever to be found in the state, said Dan Fisher, a professor at the University of Michigan and the director of the Museum of paleontology.
“It’s a pretty exciting day,” James Bollinger, an excavator and local resident who lent his services to the dig, told the Free Press Thursday. “I’ve been digging for 45 years and I’ve never dug anything up like that.” They were able to find a head, tusks, ribs and some vertebrae; the missing pieces may have been taken away by humans who possibly killed the creature for food.
Mammoths and mastodons, another elephant like creature, were common in North America before disappearing around 11,700 years ago. Remains of about 300 mastodons and 30 mammoths have been discovered in Michigan.
