It happened by chance, farmers digging in a field when they discovered the bones of an 11,000-year-old wooly mammoth. Trent Satterthwaite and James Bristle were on Bristle’s farm on Scio Church Road in Lima Township when they made the discovery. Here’s what University of Michigan researchers are now saying.
Video: what experts are saying about wooly mammoth bones uncovered on a farm near Chelsea
Oct 4, 2015 | 8:09 AM
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