Ancient Mammoth Unearthed in Michigan Farmer’s Field

“Michigan was thought to be ice-free by 16,000 to 18,000 years ago”. Things yet to come included permanent settlements, roads, agriculture, cars and iPhones. Due to the installation of the gas pipeline, and a farming schedule tied to the harvest, Bristle could only give Fisher and his team of U-M graduate and undergraduate students a single day to bring up the mammoth skeleton. Its other relatives are the now-extinct mastodon and modern elephants.

Researchers suggest that it could be Jeffersonian mammoth, which is a rare hybrid between a woolly and a Columbian mammoth. Scientists believe they may have once roamed together.

The excavation of Chelsea’s mammoth probably makes for a record somewhere. About 8 feet down, the Detroit Free Press reports, they struck bone and realized something large was buried in their midst.

At first, the farmer and property owner James Bristle assumed that they had found a dinosaur.

Bristle’s field is located 10 miles southwest of Ann Arbor, Mich. In a typical circumstance, the university wouldn’t have dedicated time and resources into an extraction without a few reassurance that the remains would be donated.

“No bones about it!”

The bones are currently in a shop on the farm, and the pit has now been filled in, Fisher said.

“We extracted this very nice skull and tusks and we found the jaw of the animal – various ribs and vertebra”. Instead, it was part of the huge ancient creature’s pelvis. “The most recent find in Freedom Township in 1956”. A backhoe digging a trench uncovered a roughly 3-foot-long bone. “It sure eats a lot of hay”. The discovery seemed to have made up for all the enormous amount of effort. It wasn’t clear late Thursday as where they will eventually end up. He added that the humans might not have killed it, seemed to have preserved it. “It was covered in mud”, Bristle told MLive.

Fisher described the age of both the site and the animal. It was an adult male, probably in its 40’s at the time of its death.

It is one of the most complete sets ever found in the state. They are now being cleaned and examined by Fisher and his team.

Evidence to support the claim that early humans were inhabiting the area include three basketball-sized boulders recovered next to the animal’s skeleton.

To confirm that early humans in this corner of the world did in fact feed on this mammoth, the researcher team must wash the bones and inspect them for cut marks.