Farmer finds woolly mammoth bones in soybean field

Soon University of Michigan researchers were on the scene, and after a more extensive excavation they determined the two farmers had found an adult woolly mammoth skeleton.

Fisher was ecstatic about the find and called Bristle for permission to retrieve the rest of the mammoth from the farmer’s land. Bristle says he and a friend were digging Monday when they found what they thought was a mud-covered, bent fence post.

University of Michigan professor Dan Fisher confirmed the remains were a woolly mammoth Thursday morning. “Studying this mammoth could also potentially tell us more about the climate system, how it works and what kinds of changes happen over time, which is something very relevant to us right now”.

“We didn’t stop to eat or drink”, he told the Detroit Free Press.

“We knew it was something that was out of the norm”, Bristle told the Ann Arbor News. Numerous missing bones, which include all the forelimbs, hind limbs and feet, may have been consumed by the ancient humans.

Fisher said the wooly mammoth was likely 40 years of age, lived somewhere around 10,000 and 15,000 years back and was chased by people who most likely murdered it, butchered it and stashed it in a lake. Boasting enormous tusks and looking a bit like a furry version of the modern-day elephant, the woolly mammoth did co-exist alongside humans for a time, scientists say.

The skeleton they found turned out to be a wooly mammoth, and a surprisingly intact one at that. He and others dug out the skull and a huge tusk.

Fisher said that the “animal had been disarticulated”, a final resting state that suggests the bones may have been left there as a result of human involvement.

“When my 5-year-old grandson came over and saw the pelvis, he just stood there with his jaw wide open and stared”, Bristle said, according to to the university’s statement.