Boys Find Mastodon Bone Along Stream in Shelby Township

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http://hss-prod.hss.aol.com/hss/storage/patch/c3f81cf682b18c2329c75f87dd43e18b

... “At first it just looked like a rock but it had a hole in it so we thought maybe it was a bone,” said Stamatin.

The boy’s family sent a picture of the bone to Cranbrook Institute to be examined. John Zawiskie geologist with Cranbrook later identified it as the axis bone of the extinct American Mastodon.

“The axis is one of two specialized vertebrae that secure the head to the vertebral column, and judging from the size of this find the animal was probably an adult around 8 or 9 feet high at the shoulders and weighing roughly 6 tons,” said Zawiskie.

The mastodon bone is likely between 13,000 and 14,000 years old. The boys led an archaeological team from Cranbrook back to the spot where they found the bones, but no more artifacts were found ...

http://rochester.patch.com/articles/boys-find-mastodon-bone-along-stream-in-shelby-township-fb4f4440

[The Straight Story]

1. Probably fell of Noah's ark while he was cruising around the area (nt)

[xchrom]

3. not possible -- by about 6,000 years.

now if it had been a dinosaur -- well we knew jesus used those for personal transportation.

[struggle4progress]

4. Maybe aliens dropped it there when Bigfoot interrupted their work to help NASA fake the moon landing

[lunatica]

2. Now that is just cool!

The boys are cool!

[struggle4progress]

5. Michigan cousins go after crayfish, hook a mastodon

... "I thought it was a rock at first, but a couple minutes later I looked more at it, and I didn't think it was a dinosaur bone, but I wasn't sure," Eric Stamatin of Shelby Township Michigan told CNN on Thursday ...

"I told Eric, you really want to go there? I bet 100 bucks it is a dinosaur bone, because I have always been fascinated with bones," Gainariu continued ...

"Andrew said maybe we can sell it, and that we could be famous... but I guess we are famous already," Stamatin said ...

"I have been thinking of selling it and making money off it," Gainariu continued, "but who is going to pay 2,000 bucks for a bone?"

http://www.cnn.com/2012/12/13/us/michigan-dinosaur-find/index.html