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Construction Crews Discover 12,000-Year-Old Mastodon Skeleton in Michigan

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Construction Crews Discover 12,000-Year-Old Mastodon Skeleton in Michigan
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Jason Duaine Hahn - Yesterday 8:12 PM
A surprise of massive proportions awaited a team of construction workers in Michigan last week.

Grand Rapids Public Museum Dr. Cory Redman of the Grand Rapids Public Museum looks through bones at the site
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The crews uncovered a mastodon skeleton during a road construction project in Kent County on Thursday afternoon, per MLive.com, after an excavator operator noticed something red in the soil.

"You go out there to put a pipe in the ground and you find this," Kent County Drain Commissioner Ken Yonker told the outlet. "To find a mastodon, that just blew us away."

"That was just really cool," he added.
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  • rickoricko Posts: 96,414 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Well, not an MD find... but wow.... Can you imagine digging a deep signal, and exposing a tusk?? That could happen... Cheers, RickO

  • johnny9434johnny9434 Posts: 26,159 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @ricko said:
    Well, not an MD find... but wow.... Can you imagine digging a deep signal, and exposing a tusk?? That could happen... Cheers, RickO

    yes and getting a gold piece right on top of it, just saying B) . cool video i like that one to

  • Namvet69Namvet69 Posts: 7,854 ✭✭✭✭✭

    I volunteer to check the trench. I think Fred and Barney both, were avid coin collectors. Peace Roy

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  • rooksmithrooksmith Posts: 972 ✭✭✭✭

    They werent mentioned in the Bible, therefore they dont exist. ;)

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  • Steven59Steven59 Posts: 5,731 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Looks like that is gonna put that project on hold :D

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    ― Will Rogers

  • rickoricko Posts: 96,414 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Steven59 ... Yes, such finds (bones - human or otherwise - usually induce a stop work for a while... Cheers, RickO

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