Not Just One

By 2015, the bones of not just one but three mammoths were found deep inside John’s backyard, where these mammoths once roamed. What was interesting was that all these bones had marks of biting on them, all in similar patterns, which meant they all died because of the same reason.

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With three new discoveries of fossils, Sarah Horgen is positive and said, “What’s important to the university is looking at the environmental context that we can recover as part of this excavation, looking at what Iowa was like at the end of the last ice age.”

The Owner’s Support

The discoveries are very important to the field of science and John has been very supportive in this context. “The geological location for this thing is just ideal,” Semken said. “He’s very excited about the kind of science we’ll get out of it and he fully realizes the value of what we have.” 

Fascinating

To find something that has been a part of our history and has existed this long is a very fascinating thought in itself. Things like these give us clues and details about what the world was like before we came. It is the kind of history that we won’t be able to study in books.