Iowa family finds mammoth bones in their backyard

Adam Khor

Lucky bastards, biggest thing I ever found was a horse neck vertebra :S

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/iowa-family-finds-prehistoric-mammoth-femur-backyard-article-1.1090553

Rubecula

I was going to say something very trite about Americans and Kentucky Fried Breakfasts. I won't though, not wishing to insult anyone with silly jokes. But I am surprised that the bone isn't heavier than it appears in that picture.

Adam Khor

Rubecula wrote: »

I was going to say something very trite about Americans and Kentucky Fried Breakfasts. I won't though, not wishing to insult anyone with silly jokes. But I am surprised that the bone isn't heavier than it appears in that picture.

Me too... I mean, its supossed to be rock, right?

Unless mammoths are still roaming the most remote wilderness of their farm :O

Rubecula

Well a true fossil is really a remnant that has become stone, not sure that any mammoth 'fossils' have been in the ground long enough to become stone. But even if they are still bone, I would have expected them to be too heavy to hold up like that.

Adam Khor

Rubecula wrote: »

Well a true fossil is really a remnant that has become stone, not sure that any mammoth 'fossils' have been in the ground long enough to become stone. But even if they are still bone, I would have expected them to be too heavy to hold up like that.

Maybe you shouldn´t be so quick to judge American Kentucky Fried Breakfasts XDD

Galvasean

Ah I remember as a kid I just started digging a hole right bang in the middle of my back garden in hope of finding dinosaur bones. Of course I had no idea about rock formations etc. or where best to look so just picked a random spot. My parents cleaned up some chicken bones and buried them in the hole one evening. Next day I was over the moon declaring that I had found dinosaur bones. In a funny kind of way I was actually right...

Galvasean

"John, who is interested in archeology, quickly realized that the object wasn’t a toy."

What an odd statement. Were they expecting to find toys?

bogwalrus

obviously a toy bone for a 20ton 30M Dog Dinosaur