Michigan: An adult skeleton emerges after university researchers perform an extensive excavation. It is one of the most set in the recent that has been found. The giant animal was an adult Wolly mammoth . Researches excavated its skull, tusks, vertebrae and other bones.
The discovery of this animal was an accident. The farmers uncovered the skeleton while they were digging a drainage ditch when they hit what they first thought were large pieces of wood.
University of Michigan researches say there is evidence, the mammoth lived 11,700-15,000 years ago. They predict, it might been killed by humans and left in a pond for storage.
Director of the University Museum of Palaeontology, Dr Dan Fisher, told reporters that the bones could help scientists determine when the first humans arrived in the area.
The Wolly mammoth could shed new light on when exactly humans first arrived the Americans and in Michigan.
The bones are temporarily stored nearby. It wasn’t clear about where they will eventually end up. They need to be cleaned and dried, then their research value will be more precisely assessed.
