A Mammoth Bone Found In Michigan

In southwest Michigan two brothers Ethan and Evan Hoge and their cousin Sebastian O'Connor found a big mammoth bone on March 21 on top of soil that had been scraped from a drain in Baroda Township. They are respectively nine-year-old, seven-year-old and 10-year-old.


Everyday they past their time searching for antique bottles and other items around what was once a railroad line along the edge of their family's property. But that day they found the bone instead.


Tom Goodwin, a professor of paleobiology at Andrews University, identified it as a vertebral section from the lower back of a Jefferson's mammoth.