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Farmers James Bristle and neighbor Trent Satterthwaite had the biggest surprise of their life when they accidentally dug up a woolly mammoth.
The Michigan farmers were working to drain water from part of the field when they accidentally hit something they couldn’t quite identify.
They had already dug 8 feet deep when a wood-like structure started to appear. At first, they thought it was just a “bent post”, but pretty soon they have stumbled upon an amazing discovery.
The wood-like structure was actually a remain of a woolly mammoth!
After more digging, they found a surprising 20% or so of the woolly mammoth’s skeleton like the head and tusks, several ribs, a set of vertebrae, and more.
This particular mammoth lived more than 10,000 years ago…
According to Dan Fisher, a professor at the University of Michigan, the giant animal which was in its 40s or 50s when it died might be hunted down and the missing parts were probably consumed by humans.
He also added that there have been about 30 woolly mammoths found in Michigan, but only five or fewer have been uncovered so extensively.
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Source: MLive