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Mastodon remains found on Michigan’s west side
KENT CITY, Mich. – Highway crews on Michigan’s west facet found a mastodon on Friday.
Kent County crews over in Kent Metropolis found bones whereas digging up 22 Mile Highway, in response to WOOD-TV. Workers members from the Grand Rapids Public Museum and specialists from the College of Michigan analyzed the bones to find out the mastodon’s species and age.
Mastodons are extinct kinfolk of the elephant. Over the many years, items from roughly 300 mastodons have been present in Michigan.
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“What I assumed (initially) was a femur and a tibia (found), however simply in the previous few minutes we’re them and so they could also be two femurs and from the identical facet. If that’s the case, now we have two animals,” Scott Beld, a analysis assistant on the Museum of Paleontology on the College of Michigan, informed WOOD.
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Make no bones about it — we’ve discovered a mastodon!
Throughout building within the Geers Intercounty drain building mission, a mastodon has been found! Archeologists from @UMich have been on-site yesterday. I dig it! pic.twitter.com/42D0rGBUpf
— Governor Gretchen Whitmer (@GovWhitmer) August 13, 2022
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