LIMA TOWNSHIP, MI (AP)-- An eastern Michigan farmer has made a mammoth find while digging in a field.
The Ann Arbor News reports the bones of a woolly mammoth were found by James Bristle in a soy field Monday night in Washtenaw County's Lima Township. Bristle says he and a friend were digging 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. He and others worked to dig out the skull and a huge tusk.
Fisher says there are only 10 similar sites in Michigan in recorded history where such a significant portion of a woolly mammoth skeleton was found. He says this one was likely 40 years old and was probably killed by humans.