‘That’s Not a Fence Post, That’s A Woolly Mammoth!’ Man Finds Pre-Historic Animal On His Michigan Farm

A farmer digging in a soy field in Michigan stumbled on something mammoth on Monday. A woolly mammoth.

What James Bristle thought was a buried fence post turned out to be a possible rib from the creature that became extinct thousands of years ago. Most of the bones of the mammal were found on the site. Amazingly, University of Michigan Professor Dan Fisher, was able to flesh out details about the mammoth from the find.

He told WWJ News, “I saw a part of a shoulder blade and there is a certain curve on a certain part of it that goes one way if it’s a mastodon and another way if it’s a mammoth,” said Fisher, “and I recognized that and said ‘humm, I think we have a mammoth here.'”

He explained it was about 40 years old, lived between 10,000 and 15,000 years ago and was hunted by humans who probably killed it, butchered it and stashed it in a pond.

Only 10 other sites as extensive as this have been uncovered in Michigan.

The Chelsea Update has an extensive photo gallery of the dig, and the Mammoth bones.