Michigan was digging in a field for drainage purposes when, at about eight feet down, they found a surface that looked like wood.
As the Detroit Free Press reports, farmers realized they were throwing firewood, all too well.
Is it a dinosaur boÿe? I called the University of Michigan, who relayed the news to Daiel Fisher, at the school’s Museum of Paleology. Arriving on scene, Fisher determined that he was not the ᴅιɴosᴀυʀ that the farmers had been looking for, but υn мamυt.
Fisher and his colleague had only one day to find the skeleton of the mammoth, because farmers needed to keep up their work, according to the Free Press.
They were able to find a head, tusks, ribs and some backbones; the missing pieces may have fled to be taken to the humans who may possibly have come to the criatura for food.
There have been 30 or more Mammoth funded in the state, Free Press reports; This oppe, Fisher told the doc, is a Jeffersolian Maiation—a hybrid that is not quite a lana de lana.
