Farmer James Bristle came across a surprising find while digging in a soy field with a friend near Chelsea, Michigan -- the remains of a woolly mammoth.
"It was probably a rib bone that came up," Bristle told the Ann Arbor News. "We thought it was a bent fence post. It was covered in mud."
Eventually, researchers from the University of Michigan determined that Bristle had stumbled upon the bones of an animal that has been extinct for over 10,000 years.
Daniel Fisher, a professor at the University of Michigan and director and curator at the university's Museum of Paleontology, told CBS Detroit that he knew exactly what it was when he saw the bones.
"I saw a part of a shoulder blade and there is a certain curve on a certain part of it that goes one way if it's a mastodon and another way if it's a mammoth," Fisher said. "I recognized that and said 'humm, I think we have a mammoth here.' "
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